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Vintage 1942 SEARCHLIGHT RECIPE BOOK Popular 15th Print - (eBay item 310009825690 end time Dec-28-07 20:39:31 PST)Do you like old cookbooks?
This vintage cookbook The Household Searchlight Recipe Book was published by The Household Magazine in Topeka, Kansas. This hardcover book is one of 100,000 copies of the fifteenth printing from 1942. The earliest printing was in 1931.
Contents are in 26 tabs:- Appetizers
- Beverages
- Breads
- Cakes
- Candies
- Canning Preserving
- Cereals
- Cheese
- Cookies
- Eggs
- Fish and Wild Game
- Frozen Desserts
- Fruits
- Gelatin
- Icings and Fillings
- Meats
- Pastries
- Poultry
- Puddings
- Salads and Dressings
- Sandwiches
- Sauces
- Soups
- Vegetables
- Special Suggestions
- Index
Here are sample recipes from the Sandwiches index:- Apricot Horseradish Sandwiches
- Currant Jelly Sandwiches
- Banana Sandwiches
- Apple Butter Sandwiches
- Baked Bean Sandwiches
- Potato Salad Sandwiches
- Ginger Peanut Sandwiches
- Beef Raisin Sandwiches
- Liver Sandwiches
- Weiner Sandwiches
- Cheese Date Sandwiches
- Cottage Cheese Sandwiches
This book was used and loved. The tabs show much thumbing, there are penciled notes written in the pages for Pastries, Salads and Dressings, and a moisture stain goes through some pages in Soups. Here and there are clipped recipes tucked into the book.
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Vintage SPUTNIK CIGAR BREATHER Keeps Cigar Lit Ashtray? - (eBay item 310009657245 end time Dec-27-07 21:35:05 PST)Do you like old smoking gear?
This vintage device is very heavy silvery metal with no maker's mark, only a small target design on the center bottom. Maybe it's an ashtray, but it looks like a sputnik and has four holes leading from the cup down through the four hollow legs.
There are two hollow tubes jutting out three sides of the bottom. The fourth side has two holes--one hollow and one seems plugged with rubber. I don't know if it's supposed to be that way or what.
The one inch long tube is where I'm supposing you place your lit cigar to keep it from going out. Perhaps the handle or bracket at the top is for tapping off your ashes.
The surface has numerous marks all over it like it's been banged around a good bit. It's small, only 3 1/2 inches high and feels like it weighs a ton, but it's 2 lbs. 1.3 oz.
Does this vintage cigar breather or whatever it is make you smile?
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Antique NO. 2A TARGET HAWK-EYE Box Camera Eastman Kodak - (eBay item 310009446632 end time Dec-26-07 21:03:27 PST)
Do you like old cameras?
This camera is marked on the film cartridge, "No. 2A Target Hawk-Eye, Made in U.S.A. by Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y., Patented in U.S.A. 1,169,882, 1,176,329, 1,494,719, Pat. Pending. Printed in U.S.A. No. 45547."
It also says, "Use Kodak Film V116 or 116. Use Kodak Film in the Yellow Box. It gets the picture." Another label suggest you give your film to a master photo dealer for expert photo finishing.
The camera is covered in black paper textured like leather and has two view finders for portrait and landscape photos. The film advance crank is marked, "Use Kodak Film 116."
To disassemble, pull out the film advance crank, lift the screw at the front end of the leather strap, grasp the camera front at each side and pull forward. The shutter lever still works and two sliding tabs control other settings. The spool in the film cartridge is wooden.
I can't see through the landscape viewer at all. There's dirt in the portrait viewer, but light gets through. One film reel guide is bent.
Does this vintage box camera make you smile?
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Vintage THE CHICAGO Old Cast Iron Tool Riveter? Emboss? - (eBay item 310009420712 end time Dec-26-07 17:25:04 PST)Do you like old cast iron tools?
This vintage cast iron tool is a mystery to me. Is it a snap setter or riveter or what? It's marked, "The Chicago, Pat Apld For." The other side says, "7." Not too informative. Is it an embosser with the seals missing?
Why does it have a part that looks like an anvil? That makes me think it might be a shoemaker's tool for installing eyelets. The handle moves completely out of the way, perhaps for hammering the eyelets down good and tight on the anvil end.
There's not much of the original shiny black finish left. The handle moves easily and compresses the two cylindrical parts together.
Does this vintage cast iron mystery tool make you smile?
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Vintage HORROCKS-IBBOTSON Cork Handle Collapsible Rod! - (eBay item 310009257504 end time Dec-25-07 20:05:37 PST)Do you like old fishing rods?
This vintage Horrocks-Ibbotson cork handle collapsible fishing rod is marked, "No. 1916 Horrocks-Ibbotson Co., Utica, New York, Made in U.S.A."
The reel has line in it that's tied in a loop through the line guides as if to keep the rod from telescoping out before the next fishing trip. I show the rod expanded as far as it will while still tied.
The telescoping works easily. One end of the reel handle rubs the reel. The cork handles were very dirty and have been gently scraped clean.
Does this vintage cork rod make you smile?
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Vintage BAYUK PHILADELPHIA PERFECTO Tin Litho Cigar Box - (eBay item 310009234282 end time Dec-25-07 17:01:13 PST)Do you like old cigar boxes?
This vintage metal cigar box says, "Bayuk Philadelphia Perfecto Hand Made" on the lid. The lithographic designs on the sides and bottom repeat those words in red, black and gold borders and wood-grain centers.
Inside, the lid says, "Bayuk Philadelphia Hand Made Perfecto, 10 Cent--It's Ripe Tobacco! Manufactured by Bayuk Cigars Inc., Philadelphia, Pa. copyright Bayuk Cigars Incorporated, 1925."
The fine print on the box front says, "The cigars herein contained were manufactured to retail at more than eight cents each and not more than fifteen cents each and are so tax paid."
There's a liner in the bottom of very stiff paper or light cardboard covering the rusted tin bottom of the cigar box. The bottom has a small hole drilled in each corner that look like they were made by the manufacturer. Not shown in the photos is a hooked arm on the left to lock the lid in an upright position through a slot in the lid edge.
There are many scrapes all over and some stains on the lid, not surprising in a tin box this old. The bottom has much wear and rust. The lid has a few minor dents, good hinges and closes easily when you push in the front a bit.
Do the vintage graphics on this tin cigar box make you smile?
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Vintage BUGLER CIGARETTE ROLLING MACHINE Old Kit, Box! - (eBay item 310008814815 end time Dec-23-07 19:12:56 PST) This Bugler Cigarette Rolling Machine is a complete kit in the original box with a 1992 postage mark on it. There are four parts: the cigarette rolling device, two plastic containers for your tobacco and/or assembled cigarettes, and a packet of cigarette paper.
The packet of paper is marked "32 Leaves Job one-point-two-five Cigarette Paper, Sole Distributors U.S.A., Republic Tobacco Co., Chicago, Illinois 60640."
It looks like someone may have used some paper as the packet is open. One of the blue plastic containers had a couple flakes of tobacco in it. The red flexible plastic part of the roller has some darkening.
See more photos of the Bugler Cigarette Rolling Machine on eBay.
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