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26 September 2010
14:1872589I am starting this thread with my father's old Rolls Razor which I remember him using when I was little and I can remember the noise of the strop
There are quite a few of these on e-bay !
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26 September 2010
14:5572594 Kath, this is all I can offer to compliment your picture. Don`t know how long my dad had them, but I`ve hung on to them with everything else. The picture above made them look big, but they`re two small, individually wrapped blades.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
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15:1872599This old reel was among father's fishing gear, I don't think he ever used it, someone must have given him some old reels.
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26 September 2010
16:2072605A Prussian cavalry sword found by English builders in Germany under floor boards.
The balde was so bad the finder decided to cut the blade off.
Given to me by good old Dad it now sits on top of a unit just looking good.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
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26 September 2010
16:4872608Whitby jet snake mourning bracelet circa 1865. I actually have two the other one is around 1890.
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17:1772611Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 September 2010
17:4572614Some lovely items above! A few of my weirdies. None are worth very much, but all unusual!
Royal Garrison Artillery uniform jacket (private) c.1904. Troops stationed at Dover Castle would have worn these.
The beak of a female giant squid, i.e. Architeuthis Dux preserved in isopropyl alcohol.
Luftshutz (Air raid warden) helmet from 1942 with contemporary gas mask.
Large Jurassic ammonite - probably Lytoceras - preserved in limestone.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 September 2010
18:2272621you must have a fair sized mantlepice phil.
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19:0372629Lovely sized ammonite there Phil, did you find it locally or bought elsewhere? I`ve only ever found a small one over the Warren.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
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26 September 2010
19:2472637Great collection there Phil.
Did I ever mention my Victorian taxidermy?! I have owls, sandpipers, a jay and these - kingfisher in a bell jar, red cardinal and a puffin.
Before I have the animal rights people knocking on my door I only collect VICTORIAN taxidermy, not recent.
Err I also have a 1930s croc handbag with a real croc (I never take it out though.)
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26 September 2010
19:2572639Bit of a story there on that one Colin. I was given it at about at a friends house after a night on the razzle. Trouble was I had been drinking home-made cider after the pub and was three sheets to the wind. I was given this enormous ammonite and staggered home with it in a bag across Tower Hamlets. I got stopped by the Old Bill who asked me what I had in the bag and I tried to drunkenly explain it was Jurassic period ammonite cephalopod.
They drove on. True story.
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20:0072645Kath, I have one of the tins in #1 somewhere, I think it must have been my grandfathers.
I seem to acquire various objects, one is this cast iron railway sign.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 September 2010
20:2272648i bet they were terrified phil, they must have thought you were one of those blokes on the bus that sits nex to you, turns and grins at you and says that he has a battery operated chainsaw in his tesco's bag.
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26 September 2010
21:4272656I bet someone's got an old Oxo tin - red with hinges? I haven't got one but we kids always took our lunch out on picnics etc in one. Lunch was usually a marmite or jam sandwich, a jelly in a sunny spread tub and an apple. lol Good old days!
There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
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26 September 2010
21:5872663Wonderful ammonite Phil! I love them. And what a story !
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22:2472670Wonderful jet bracelet Jeane. And that croc handbag .....
Here is a button dug up: Does anyone know its age ??
says 'CINQ PORTS'
and a Cinque Ports Volunteer Rifles button (age??) :
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 September 2010
22:4672671no idea of dates, my suspicion is that the top photo relates to essex somehow.
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27 September 2010
01:2172673Nice finds Kath. A little internet searching tells me that the Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers were formed in 1859 in response to renewed perceived threats from France. Sometime shortly prior to WW1 they were reformed as a Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. Here is a snippet for you:
http://www.hastingschronicle.com/1859/05/05/rifle-volunteers-launched/
You may lke to consider sending your pics to these chaps to see what they make of your finds:
http://www.cinqueportsdrums.co.uk/index.html
Did you find them around Dover?
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27 September 2010
09:5072685Thanks Phil, I will e-mail them.
Howard - the old button does say CINQ PORTS and it does have the Cinque Ports coat of arms, I don't think it would be Essex.
Yes, they were found in the Dover area, but not by me.
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