This might be a long shot, but we're striking out everywhere else on the internet so I thought I'd try here:
My wife bought this while thrifting yesterday. The problem is, we don't know what it is 😅 It looks like a lamp base... but I'm skeptical because there's no hole for a power cord. Could it be something else?
Also, we're curious about who made it. There is a signature but it's hard to read and googling it has been fruitless
You never quite know what you’ll run into at a North Star Auction — The Philharmonic Concert Master DA-MAR Music System (Reed Organ) — In simple terms, it’s an accordion without a squeezer.
After reading @pluralistic's latest piece on planned obsolescence as technofeudalism, I stumbled across this Tumblr post about how a rusty old 100-year-old Singer sewing machine can be restored to FEARSOME, SUPERIOR working order compared to any newish machine, by swapping in standard-sized parts that attach with standard flat-head screws
Meanwhile the modern machine's plastic parts wear out quickly and very little is attached with standard screws. It also depends on software that's now glitching
Today's antique faire finds: a Stahly vibrating safety razor and... I actually don't know what the other thing is, but I bought it anyway.
There are no brand markings on it, only "Patented Feb 9 1915" on the bottom. The bottom twists like the Stahly blade and it seems like the top might rotate. There is a sharp round circle at the top and the dealer seemed to think it was for sharpening blades, but he wasn't sure. Any ideas? Time to do some research.
Hand colored antique photograph.
This is from a set of six scenes from early 20th c. Japan.
About 30 years ago a landlord owed me money for my deposit. They couldn’t pay and asked if I’d accept these as a partial payment. I later showed them to an antique photo expert who authenticated them and estimated the value.
Issues of Forest and Stream, Rod and Gun from 1878, 1879 and 1881. This was after Rod and Gun was folded into Forest and Stream, but half a century before Forest and Stream was swallowed up by Field and Stream. The final issue of Field and Stream was in 2015. #outdoors#hunting#fishing#vintage#antique#magazines#history
When I stepped into the second room of the old train Depot museum at Uptop, Colorado, this vintage pitcher and basin in the window caught my attention. I especially liked that I could angle the composition to get the Chapel of the Wayside as the outside background. 2021
Decided to just spend this, no special numbers, not a star bill, it’s in good nick for being from the ‘50s, but that’s it. The young cashier wouldn’t take it! She had never seen one, held it up like it was magic. I took him back, he’s going back in a drawer… #five#dollar#old#bill#currency#antique#money#from the #fifties
New obsession(?) - antique frames for paintings… baroque, rococo styles… i guess it’s only fitting since my painting is solidly in classical realism, traditional / academic arts 😅😅😅
Good places in LA for estate sales or antique shops? Or i keep giving etsy my 💵💸
An heirloom of my people. If I understand correctly, a lamb goes in one end, and socks come out the other. The exact mechanism escapes me. #Photography#Antique
Today was the year’s final North Star Auction, and it was a hoot. It will probably take me until spring to sort through all the paper that went home with me.
Spotted near Newport, NH during a bike ride a few years ago. I’ve always loved these old, “springy mounted” metal tractor seats, but then again I've never had to spend a day (or whole Spring) sitting on one.