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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    ...the only indoor one i can think of attending in the UK is in a multi story car part in Edinburgh Scotland built on top of a plague pit (they found the bones when they were digging the foundations); that flea market always had a somewhat claustrophobic atmosphere...
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    ...having asked that it was pretty chilly last time i did flea markets in NYC...
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    are US flea markets weather dependent? : i have a photo of me at a flea market iwhen a snow storm hit (i remember it made for good deals that morning!), and one Sunday last year in Berlin i did three flea markets in sub-zero temperatures...i donno; maybe its a 'man-thing'... : )
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    this is some of the 'new to me' stuff from this past week: purchase from Deutsch eBay for around 44 euro 'Kaiser Idell - 6556 Super' lamp designed by Christain Dell...this is a 1950s rendition of a pre-Third Reich era Bauhaus lamp... purchased at the Saturday car boot sale...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Big Man I'm not easily impressed by the vintage homes of others' but your's is in a category all of its own...I also have to say it also looks vaguely haunted like you've made it homely for ghosts... best wishes, TK
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    Different decorating periods in one home...or room?

    our family house (built in the 1890s, purchased by my grandparents in 1926) didn't have an inside bathroom or...erm "rest room" till 1973/74 when my brother got a special local authority grant to upgrade.this was pretty much par for the course for a lot of pre 1930s British housing stock...I...
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    How to clean medals?

    Brasso if you can get it in your country...ior, if you're reckless Coca Cola will clean most metals... best of luck, TK
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    What's on your dresser?

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    What's on your dresser?

    Still having a bag of trouble uploading...hope this way works; Not a dresser but a CC41 marked tallboy...with some RAF sweethearts made from cockpit Lucite and coinage there on top and a unknown make, 1920s patented German Bauhaus influenced task lamp...
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    Vintage Phones

    its a 1930s Henry Dreyfuss phone right? you're so lucky you live in a country where you can inherit such wonders! TK
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    Long Range Desert Group Coat on eBay

    I've read quite a lot of unpublished diaries from the North Africa campaigns etc...and it seems that everyone was mixing and matching pieces of kit....I've seen pictures of in some uniform guide of British KD with the insignia swapped for Afrikakorps'. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it...
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    Disney Rejection Letter - 1938

    yeah, Walt was also a big fan of A. Hitler's way of running things and a supporter of America First...I think its important that at some juncture that we judge the past by today's standards... TK
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    Melrose Diner Clock (It's arrived, and I have pictures)

    Scotrace how do you feel about Michael's 'Goody Boy' Drive In in Columbus?
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    couldn't resist

    "couldn't resist"...funny, nor could I. They're 1950s Headlights: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220146767655
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    Different decorating periods in one home...or room?

    Hi Poetman, I'm new to these boards and it looks like I am yet to earn my right to post pictures else I for one would oblige gladly. Yes, the apartment in The End of the Affair is truly a sight to behold, but my advice to would include a warning not to attempt to graft a 30s/40s London flat...
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    Melrose Diner Clock (It's arrived, and I have pictures)

    I love this tread but I've been to only a handful of diners in the handful of visits to your country...the best that I recall in terms of original fixtures, phonebooths and all, was an establishment I've forgotten the name of on a road trip back from Vermont in some also forgettable buttfuck...
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    Weird Pocket Finds

    Hello BK, Last time I saw one of those military work blouses it dirt cheap at a flea market in my hometown of Kettering, Northamptonshire the jacket was with the trousers in a box with some webbing other military odds and sods, but I left all where they were and later regretted it greatly...
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    Your Machine Age Americana

    I love it...but being in olde England its hard to get and doesn't always look right when it arrives. I already noticed that many of you jammie blighters have some very nice Henry Dreyfuss Western Electric telephones and one lucky fella has a Dreyfuss flask he got from an old lady yard sale...but...
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    The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard

    Before I started dressing vintage, and I started dressing in around 1984 I was a bit of a punk kid...I was with my punk mates hanging out one time in my hometown and a small child exclaimed "Look Mummy, Clowns!"... But in regards to vintage it was a girl I'd very recently been dumped by...
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    Weird Pocket Finds

    Hallo Baron, when you say "Jacket, Overall" do you mean the kind that's a crappy algae coloured denim-like material? best TK

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