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Desert dog

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I picked up this souvenir folder/ postcard at a garage sell. Pictures on both sides, they are colorized photographs by Ralph Doubleday.
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Dnewma04

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Liberty has talked about wanting to try tennis. Decided to look at the thrift today and found two brand new Wilson rackets. Also grabbed a Raleigh 24 speed comfort bike, very similar to the last one I grabbed.

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HanauMan

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I picked up this miniature painting in a thrift store in town recently. The owner didn't know anything about it or whether it was a copy but it looked right to me so I bought it for £50 / $65. Once I got home I took it out of the frame and it is a real miniature and it is painted on either bone or ivory. You can see tiny brush strokes and it certainly has a 18th century 'feel' to it. The wooden frame and glass also look pretty original. On the internet there are a couple of similar paintings done by an Irish artist, almost the same as this one but a different face. I'm guessing that they were perhaps mass produced in advance and then only had the face of the client added later.
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Desert dog

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That's a very good looking elk, painted by numbers. That sure brings back childhood memories of painting horses. The gravel art is really nice, especially since you knew the artist. Cool collection you've got going!
Another paint-by-number for the farm... (I love this kitschy stuff).

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BTW...my wife’s Grandma did the fish-gravel art in the middle.

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That's a very good looking elk, painted by numbers. That sure brings back childhood memories of painting horses. The gravel art is really nice, especially since you knew the artist. Cool collection you've got going!

Thanks Ed! We have one more PBN that was done by a relative, but the others were all picked up at thrifts, etc. I think we have a dozen or more. The three to the left of the fish-gravel-art are a PBN and two needle-points. We also have some "good" art. :)
 

vitanola

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Picked up a couple of clocks. The first is an alarm which looks for all the world like a 1918 vintage Westclox Baby Ben, but is in fact an Italian knock-off dating to the late 1920s.

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The other is a nice Ansonia Crystal Regulator of 1910 vintage. I love the ruby Brocot escarpment visible in the center of the dial. This was the premium version of the clock with real mercury in the compensating pendulum.

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And a pair of vases which purport to be red anchor Chelsea, but are doubtless Continental copies of at least a century later. They make a decent, though perhaps stuffy, arrangement on the mantle, I think.

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I love old canoes. I have a cedar strip canoe & now two wood & canvas canoes. I bought this last one at a yard sale last spring. It's a 1920's Old Town wood & green canvas canoe. I intended to strip it down & restore it over last winter but didn't get the job done. So I'm going to try for this fall.

Here are pics taken the day I bought it, followed by a couple of Internet pics on how the ribs & cane seats should look when restored.

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Another "barn find", a 1928 Old Town.

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Very cool Jack! Are you planning to restore it? BTW ... on the three "goose" glasses. They matched one we already had so we now have a "set" (of four anyway).
Yes. The canvas is a lemon yellow that someone varnished over when it started to leak. Since it's pretty rare I may do it before the green one. I heard where there might be an old Ouachita canvas canoe for sale maybe, but I'm afraid to run it down just yet. I'm running out of room to hang them up out of the way.

When finished it should look like this:
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BTW ... on the three "goose" glasses. They matched one we already had so we now have a "set" (of four anyway).
Forgot to mention the tumbler glasses are neat. Watch for some Rocks & Shots to match. In some of the patterns they also made Pilsners & Flutes also. Those are all usually harder to find than tumblers.
 

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Jack, when you restore them, do you replace the canvas? I bet it is fun but labor intensive. I stripped the worn canvas from an old trunk that we use for a coffee table. The canvas was applied and painted before the trunk was fully assembled.
Yes. The canvas is a lemon yellow that someone varnished over when it started to leak. Since it's pretty rare I may do it before the green one. I heard where there might be an old Ouachita canvas canoe for sale maybe, but I'm afraid to run it down just yet. I'm running out of room to hang them up out of the way.

When finished it should look like this:
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Jack, when you restore them, do you replace the canvas? I bet it is fun but labor intensive. I stripped the worn canvas from an old trunk that we use for a coffee table. The canvas was applied and painted before the trunk was fully assembled.

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The old canvas has to be stripped off & thrown away. If it has leaked very much some of the white cedar strips underneath usually have to be replaced. You can buy cedar strips planed down to thickness but they have to be steamed & bent to shape. Any broken ribs have to be replaced also. Strip, seal & refinish all the wood. New canvas.

I have a 15' green canvas I restored & have ~200 hrs labor in it. I went back will all new brass screws & hardware too.
 

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