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Ladies Vintage Cardinal Wrist Watch 1940 Era
This is a Ladies Vintage Cardinal Wrist Watch 1940's A55430 . This watch does not run and has normal age wear. I cannot guarantee my older watches and clocks and I try to say in my ad whether they run or not so you buy as is No Returns.Needs a gentle cleaning and repairs to make it run. It may be Gold filled but is not marked that I could find. May be marked inside, Just not sure. If you have any more questions please ask before you purchase. I ship to the USA. No International Shipping. I…
Babies left in their prams outside the shops, safe & sound. How the world has changed since then :(
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The history of Roundtree's Fruit Pastilles and Gums
A Child's Garden of Verses - Illustrated by Hilda Boswell
Scored this gorgeous book for a quarter! Illustrated by Hilda Bowell in 1963. A Child's Garden of Verses, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, was first published in 1885. Did you know that it first appeared under the title 'Penny Whistles'? I especially like reading the poem 'The Swing' to my kids.
Marc Bolan dies, September 1977, newspaper front page
I must admit I wasn’t a big T.Rex fan in the early 70s. I liked their music and I bought the singles: "Metal Guru" and "Solid Gold Easy Action" in 1972, but their singer Marc Bolan appealed more to girls than to me and my friends. My sister had a Bolan poster on her bedroom wall but I was too much into Slade to bother about T.Rex. But by 1977 Marc Bolan was appealing to a new audience which included young punks like me. He went on tour with The Damned as support band (unfortunately I didn’t…
1953 Triumph Mayflower
vintage Christmas tree fairy
Clothes horse, winter hedge, or maiden
Today there was too much laundry for our clothes lines so I dried some of it the old fashioned way. I threw the clothes on the hedge. Very effective and intensely satisfying. The antiquity of this method is attested by the term "winter hedge", for what I call a clothes horse. “Winter hedge” goes back at least as far as Old English (about 800 years). And so far as I can tell by looking at a few websites, was common until quite recently in northern England - specifically West Yorkshire, south…
Shoes: Clogs made by Dr Scholls (1969)
Womens' Wood and Leather Clogs Pair of wood and beige leather exercise clogs. Footshape open toe, wooden base upcurved under metatarsal arch; adjustable leather strap, side stamped: Dr Scholls Made in Western Germany, low heel, rubber sole. Rights info: Non commercial use accepted. Please credit to "Northampton Museums & Art Gallery". Please contact Northampton Museums Service if you wish to use this image commercially. Location of collection: Northampton Museum & Art Gallery…