Saturday, August 11, 2012
RANDOM ANIMALS
RANDOM MAY TRIP W/ THE DANES
RANDOM LANDS & PEOPLES
RANDOM 341OBJECT
older OLK ART mode paper-mache TITANIC folksy STEAMSHIP homemade & big-$16
I’ll bet someone had a great time making this very folksy model of the Titanic. They used some corrugated and “papier-mâché.” If you want to get technical about it, it’s probably not paper-mache, as in chewed paper, but it IS paper – very stiff paper – hardened in some sort of way that’s a mystery to me. You know what I mean, so let’s get on with it and have a good close look.
I bought it at the little auction house down the road from us. They were selling stuff from several homes that night, so I don’t know where it came from nor do I know its exact age. It’s not new, that’s for sure.
That should be folk arty enough for anyone.
It measures 32” long, so it’s a big rascal. It’s about 7” tall and 3 ¼” wide. But here’s my favorite part: It weighs a mere 13 ounces, which made loading my truck after the auction a whole lot easier.
You’ve probably already noticed it has “TITANIC” written on it, bow and stern, both sides, but in case you missed it, here’s a better picture.
I’m sorry. That couldn’t be helped. I was carrying it outside to photograph, and I noticed the freezer on my way. One thing led to another, and . . . I won’t let anything like that happen again.
Ha! A reflection – just almost like the ocean, nearly. I was working on a big print out there last night and had left the glass outside. It made a great surface for showing off the boat.
Now you’ve seen both sides. Let’s look at some details.
Dang it! I didn’t mean to do that. This time I really am sorry. That was rude.
I wish I had some little bitty deck chairs.
No, making that picture wasn’t just me wasting time. As I told “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed” when she saw me fooling with that picture early this morning: “I’M WORKING! LEAVE ME ALONE.”
I can’t find any markings on it at all.
Oh, the irony . . . a homemade Titanic and a homemade iceberg.
SATURDAY INQUISITION BLOGGING
disembowelment- the condemned slit open and the intestine attached to a drum + wound out of the victim. 17th century image.
RANDOM ARNE
trans siberia
RANDOM PIMPED CAR
1951 packard
RANDOM EBAY OBJECT
RANDOM LANDS & PEOPLES
RANDOM MAY TRIP W/ THE DANES
TIME TRAVEL! i did antigo + the evening 1st. this is on the drive from the cabin to crandon to mole lake.
RANDOM SQUIRREL
japanese
SATURN'S DAY BUTTER STAMP BLOGGING
Friday, August 10, 2012
RANDOM MAY TRIP W/ THE DANES
the cabin wood pile/shed
RANDOM LANDS & PEOPLES
RANDOM JULY DRIVE
now that looks dry
RANDOM 341 OBJECT
antique 19th CENTURY 22 1/2" socket BAYNET-4 sided blade H986 etc-$36
I’ve heard some pretty stupid things blurt out of my mouth over the years. I suppose I’m not alone in that, but shouldn’t such incidents become rarer as one gets up in years? I thought so until last week when a friend dropped by holding this bayonet in his hand.
When he started in on a long-winded story about how he didn’t know anything about it, I cut him off, told him I’d be happy to toss it on eBay, and that’s when I said something incredibly stupid. I said, “It won’t take me but a few minutes to identify it. I have the book.
When he knocked on the door I opened it just a crack and asked, “What-up?” (I didn’t open the door all the way because I was in my summer eBay work clothes, which consists of a mismatched “pair” of socks from my orphaned sock drawer and a pair of white cotton briefs.)
I pulled my book on military stuff off a high shelf, and before he even got out of the driveway, I realized that even with the book I just didn’t have the basic knowledge to identify the bayonet. Even the marks like those shown above, didn’t help.
The upside is that eBay, by its very nature, is very forgiving. As long as I don’t call it something it isn’t, there are enough bayonet experts looking at every item with the word “bayonet” in title to make certain I don’t give away a valuable bayonet. And since I start almost everything at nine bucks and never use a reserve, there’s no danger of anyone getting hosed.
