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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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My favourite piece of the past is a small water colour painted by..........
Albert Ball VC 1st world war fighter ace with 11 kills to his name, in his spare time when not up in the air over flanders he used to unwind by painting water colour pictures I wouldn't sell it for any money.
I also have several Victorian bottles also.
What treasured bygone antique or collectable do you have.
And I don't mean the wife or hubby ha ha  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have a fan that I bought about 30 yrs ago for a fiver that is made of several pieces if material and painted on one side. I also have a Jones sewing machine that belonged to my mum |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I have a fan that I bought about 30 yrs ago for a fiver that is made of several pieces if material and painted on one side. I also have a Jones sewing machine that belonged to my mum"
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Have a pocket watch thats very old.
Lots of one off or very limited bears, also state of the art security system
I have a state of the art security system 
Its the geese in the small holding at the back of my home.....anything that moves and they kick off and they are nosy buggers.........but oh so grateful they are there "
Baseball bat lol xx |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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My Grandfather`s pocket watch. An American Waltham movement in an English silver case hallmarked in the 1870`s. The movements were shipped from America by a disgruntled ex-employee of Walthams who commisioned the manafacture of the cases. The watches were quite popular, much to the annoyance of the Waltham factory back in the States!
Information came from the Coventry Clock and Watch Museum by the way! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My Grandfather`s pocket watch. An American Waltham movement in an English silver case hallmarked in the 1870`s. The movements were shipped from America by a disgruntled ex-employee of Walthams who commisioned the manafacture of the cases. The watches were quite popular, much to the annoyance of the Waltham factory back in the States!
Information came from the Coventry Clock and Watch Museum by the way!"
my mum has a singer sewing machine, and all my books from when I was a child in her loft, Enid Blyton's and more |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i have a piece of pinxton china that is roughly 200 years old ,because it was made in the village where i was born.
Did you buy it new lol"
yes on one of my many jaunts in the tardis |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"i have a piece of pinxton china that is roughly 200 years old ,because it was made in the village where i was born.
Did you buy it new lolyes on one of my many jaunts in the tardis"
Well get yourself up here in it and flash your antiques. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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A teddy bear that was my nannas when she was a girl it is now on its own shelf in my daughters room at her house, I also have a German bible that my uncle swapped for an English one at the end of ww2 with a pow he befriended to remind each other not all of their so called enemy were evil. |
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Kate wears my great grandma's wedding ring. She wears it next to our ring. It's only about a hundred years old but great grandad bought it just before he went into action in First World War. He came through it ok and they both lived a long and happy life, so we're hoping some of it's luck will rub off on us. Our first 32yrs together haven't been too bad.   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Kate wears my great grandma's wedding ring. She wears it next to our ring. It's only about a hundred years old but great grandad bought it just before he went into action in First World War. He came through it ok and they both lived a long and happy life, so we're hoping some of it's luck will rub off on us. Our first 32yrs together haven't been too bad. "
That is so lovely.
My first engagement ring was my great grandmothers. It didn't work out for me but hey go x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"A teddy bear that was my nannas when she was a girl it is now on its own shelf in my daughters room at her house, I also have a German bible that my uncle swapped for an English one at the end of ww2 with a pow he befriended to remind each other not all of their so called enemy were evil."
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Kate wears my great grandma's wedding ring. She wears it next to our ring. It's only about a hundred years old but great grandad bought it just before he went into action in First World War. He came through it ok and they both lived a long and happy life, so we're hoping some of it's luck will rub off on us. Our first 32yrs together haven't been too bad.
That is so lovely.
My first engagement ring was my great grandmothers. It didn't work out for me but hey go x"
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Kate wears my great grandma's wedding ring. She wears it next to our ring. It's only about a hundred years old but great grandad bought it just before he went into action in First World War. He came through it ok and they both lived a long and happy life, so we're hoping some of it's luck will rub off on us. Our first 32yrs together haven't been too bad. "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My Grandfather`s pocket watch. An American Waltham movement in an English silver case hallmarked in the 1870`s. The movements were shipped from America by a disgruntled ex-employee of Walthams who commisioned the manafacture of the cases. The watches were quite popular, much to the annoyance of the Waltham factory back in the States!
Information came from the Coventry Clock and Watch Museum by the way!"
I have one of these, my great grandfather bought it with the money he received from the government after serving in WW1. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My favourite piece of the past is a small water colour painted by..........
Albert Ball VC 1st world war fighter ace with 11 kills to his name, in his spare time when not up in the air over flanders he used to unwind by painting water colour pictures I wouldn't sell it for any money.
I also have several Victorian bottles also.
What treasured bygone antique or collectable do you have.
And I don't mean the wife or hubby ha ha "
On a whim just bought an antique plough god alone knows what I am going to do with it 
Seemed right at the time to buy it and was a bugger getting it home
Oh well a winter project to renovate it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My favourite piece of the past is a small water colour painted by..........
Albert Ball VC 1st world war fighter ace with 11 kills to his name, in his spare time when not up in the air over flanders he used to unwind by painting water colour pictures I wouldn't sell it for any money.
I also have several Victorian bottles also.
What treasured bygone antique or collectable do you have.
And I don't mean the wife or hubby ha ha
On a whim just bought an antique plough god alone knows what I am going to do with it
Seemed right at the time to buy it and was a bugger getting it home
Oh well a winter project to renovate it."
Oops! Well do u have a percheron or a shire to use with it when renovated??  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My favourite piece of the past is a small water colour painted by..........
Albert Ball VC 1st world war fighter ace with 11 kills to his name, in his spare time when not up in the air over flanders he used to unwind by painting water colour pictures I wouldn't sell it for any money.
I also have several Victorian bottles also.
What treasured bygone antique or collectable do you have.
And I don't mean the wife or hubby ha ha
On a whim just bought an antique plough god alone knows what I am going to do with it
Seemed right at the time to buy it and was a bugger getting it home
Oh well a winter project to renovate it.
Oops! Well do u have a percheron or a shire to use with it when renovated?? "
The only horse I will use with the plough is.............horse power in my car to get it to shows to show it off...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I have a cooking implement that was my grandmother's - made bespoke in Indonesia around 1910.
And Harry - the skull I dug up myself in the mid 70s. He is from before 1600. Never had him properly dated. Some find him offputting, sitting there on his shelf. I think he's beautiful. He was perfect when I found him - but he lost a few of his teeth through changing indoor temperatures and humidity. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My favourite piece of the past is a small water colour painted by..........
Albert Ball VC 1st world war fighter ace with 11 kills to his name, in his spare time when not up in the air over flanders he used to unwind by painting water colour pictures I wouldn't sell it for any money.
I also have several Victorian bottles also.
What treasured bygone antique or collectable do you have.
Own one? I am one!
And I don't mean the wife or hubby ha ha "
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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago
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And Harry - the skull I dug up myself in the mid 70s. He is from before 1600. Never had him properly dated. Some find him offputting, sitting there on his shelf. I think he's beautiful. He was perfect when I found him - but he lost a few of his teeth through changing indoor temperatures and humidity."
I am not sure that is legal, I thought you had to organise reburial |
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By *obbygggMan
over a year ago
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And Harry - the skull I dug up myself in the mid 70s. He is from before 1600. Never had him properly dated. Some find him offputting, sitting there on his shelf. I think he's beautiful. He was perfect when I found him - but he lost a few of his teeth through changing indoor temperatures and humidity.
I am not sure that is legal, I thought you had to organise reburial"
So where did you find this skull? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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And Harry - the skull I dug up myself in the mid 70s. He is from before 1600. Never had him properly dated. Some find him offputting, sitting there on his shelf. I think he's beautiful. He was perfect when I found him - but he lost a few of his teeth through changing indoor temperatures and humidity.
I am not sure that is legal, I thought you had to organise reburial"
Is there a time limit by which re burial must have taken place before a criminal act has occurred? (dunno) . Maybe the poster is intending having Harry buried with her??? |
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By *obbygggMan
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And Harry - the skull I dug up myself in the mid 70s. He is from before 1600. Never had him properly dated. Some find him offputting, sitting there on his shelf. I think he's beautiful. He was perfect when I found him - but he lost a few of his teeth through changing indoor temperatures and humidity.
I am not sure that is legal, I thought you had to organise reburial
Is there a time limit by which re burial must have taken place before a criminal act has occurred? (dunno) . Maybe the poster is intending having Harry buried with her??? "
Well as there has been no official dating of said skull it could have been buried in the past few years(maybe recently) and could be a murder victim's. Should really take it to the police. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Re Harry - as I said, I found him in the 70s, when I was still living abroad. The building that was going to be erected was on the spot where since 1600 a hospital had been. Before that, there was a monastery with its own graveyard. Harry must have been a monk, or at least lived there. So he's a Venerable Old Bloke.
The local authorities decided to leave things as they were and not to excavate. So - there you are. Nothing suspicious. I called him Harry because of a series of articles in Reader's Digest about the human body - I am Harry's Liver, I am Harry's Pancreas, etc. This is Harry's Head. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Re Harry - as I said, I found him in the 70s, when I was still living abroad. The building that was going to be erected was on the spot where since 1600 a hospital had been. Before that, there was a monastery with its own graveyard. Harry must have been a monk, or at least lived there. So he's a Venerable Old Bloke.
The local authorities decided to leave things as they were and not to excavate. So - there you are. Nothing suspicious. I called him Harry because of a series of articles in Reader's Digest about the human body - I am Harry's Liver, I am Harry's Pancreas, etc. This is Harry's Head. "
A very interesting thread and great to read |
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According to the original instructions it could be used for treating everything from piles to diptheria
The first time I used a violet wand on Debs she said "What will happen if you use it on my new (clit hood) piercing?"
Well after we all stopped laughing we scraped her off the ceiling |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"According to the original instructions it could be used for treating everything from piles to diptheria
The first time I used a violet wand on Debs she said "What will happen if you use it on my new (clit hood) piercing?"
Well after we all stopped laughing we scraped her off the ceiling "
Sounds like a lot of fun |
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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago
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"Re Harry - as I said, I found him in the 70s, when I was still living abroad. The building that was going to be erected was on the spot where since 1600 a hospital had been. Before that, there was a monastery with its own graveyard. Harry must have been a monk, or at least lived there. So he's a Venerable Old Bloke.
The local authorities decided to leave things as they were and not to excavate. So - there you are. Nothing suspicious. I called him Harry because of a series of articles in Reader's Digest about the human body - I am Harry's Liver, I am Harry's Pancreas, etc. This is Harry's Head. "
Unfortunately it is still illegal. Especially so since it was on former church land. And perhaps one of th reasons the council couldn't excavate. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Unfortunately it is still illegal. Especially so since it was on former church land. And perhaps one of the reasons the council couldn't excavate. "
As I said - it was abroad. The local council didn't give a toss; they didn't want any delays with the erecting of the new hospital. Excavating the site would have taken many months. I just jumped in one of the freshly dug trenches and spotted the back of the skull sticking out of the wall. So however many other skellingtons were buried there, their resting place was severely disturbed by the new building and most will have been smashed. At least I treat Harry with reverence. I asked the Museum of Antiquities how to preserve him properly. He looks well for his age. |
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