skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Vintage COUNTRY HARVEST SHADOW BOX Mouse Corn Beans! - eBay (item 310015503307 end time Jan-23-08 19:37:08 PST) This wooden shadow box has six compartments. Three are filled with lentils, corn, and beans. The bottom shelf has a cute wooden mouse, bark, dried wheat and flowers. The top compartments have a mini cast iron skillet and blue enamel pot and a card with dried flowers on it.
It's made of a dark finish wood with an ornate metal loop for hanging, glass front and wooden back. Hang this on your wall to bring a touch of fall harvest into your home year round.
Blogged with Flock
Vintage ENTERPRISE 16 CHERRY STONER Hand Crank Pitter! - eBay (item 310015486698 end time Jan-23-08 18:53:58 PST) This vintage metal kitchen tool is heavy as cast iron, but silver in color and embossed, "16 Cherry Stoner, Enterprise Phila. U.S.A." It has a big screw to clamp it to a table or counter edge.
I don't know what the 16 stands for. The year it was made? I researched on eBay and found another model similar to this but with an extra part. It came out in 1917.
I think you feed cherries into the big chute, turn the crank to squeeze them through a small opening and they come out the little chute. Do the pits come out with the mashed cherries or stay in the first chute? I don't know.
The crank turns easily as does the clamp screw. The silvery finish has much patina.
Blogged with Flock
Vintage THE HOUSEHOLD PHYSICIAN, VOL I Illus HC, Charts - eBay (item 310015200199 end time Jan-22-08 19:35:50 PST)The Household Physician, A Twentieth Century Medica, Vol I was published in 1931 by Brofly Press in Buffalo, New York. It's a big, heavy hardcover with loads of black and white drawings and diagrams of body parts, some color drawings, some photos, and a many-page cross-section diagram of the structures in the human head, another of the body.
Sample text:
Sex of Child--How to Regulate Before Birth
When a Male Child is Desired.--Before cohabitation the husband should eat nothing but good substantial food, take long, hard exercise in the open air, read light literature, abstain from indulgences for some time before the procreative period. The wife should abstain from animal food but should eat vegetables and farinaceous articles of diet, exercise daily until almost fatigued and pass the time with older females than herself.
When a Female Child is Desired.--Exactly the opposite course should be taken. The wife should eat the most stimulating food, should not indulge the passions, and should reserve her whole vigor and strength for the desired time. The husband should take violent exercise until fatigued and a hot bath every night.
After pregnancy the wife should eat little meat but should live mostly on farinaceous food and take short walks in the open air, but not enough to get tired, and should sleep as much as possible.
Does this vintage book of medical advice make you smile?
Blogged with Flock
Vintage GENERIC BINOCULARS Black Metal, No Maker's Mark - eBay (item 310015190445 end time Jan-22-08 18:29:18 PST) This vintage pair of binoculars has no maker's mark anywhere. They're black metal and showing age with dents and loss of finish.
They could use a good cleaning and oiling. You can adjust the visual length, but they're frozen so you can't adjust the distance between eyepieces. The original strap is gone, leaving slots for attaching a new strap.
You can see through them. One ring around the far lens is bent and no longer circular. They might be great for a little adventurer.
Blogged with Flock
Vintage DIETZGEN SLIDE RULE in Orig Hard Leather Case! - eBay (item 310015189636 end time Jan-22-08 18:23:47 PST) This vintage slide rule is marked, "Dietzgen 1737 Japan" and "Decimal Trig Type Log Log." The hard leather case is embossed, "Dietzgen" on the flap. The slide slides easily, has no wear at all and fits snugly in the case.
A slide rule was the pocket 'computer' before silicon chips changed the world. Now it seems as old as an abacus, doesn't it?
Blogged with Flock
Vintage EMPIRE HAIR STRAIGHTENER IRON Wide Blades Elec. - eBay (item 310015188247 end time Jan-22-08 18:15:27 PST) This vintage Empire hair straightener iron is marked, "Empire Products, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, Patent 1889432 Made in U.S.A."
Depress the thumb lever and it opens just wide enough to accept a lock of hair (see photo). The cord is 58 inches long. The handle and thumb knob are black wood. There's a seemingly permanent thumbprint on one blade.
Blogged with Flock
Vintage GENERAL ANGLE DIVIDER Old Tool No. 835, Works! - eBay (item 310015187751 end time Jan-22-08 18:11:51 PST) This vintage angle divider is marked, "Angle Divider, Made in U.S.A. General No. 835." There are two scales: one marked 30, 45 and 60 degrees; the other marked 0, 10, 8, 6, 5 and 4. A John Shiock etched his name on it in two different places.
I have no idea how it works, but I'm sure you do. I showed it spread open in the last shot, but it opens all the way, no limits. UPDATE: I see from other listings how it works. I shouldn't have opened it like that, but I restored it to the way I found it, so no worries.
The old tool is solid and ready to work for you if you'll forgive the patina and minor rust spots on the silvery finish.
Blogged with Flock
Stumble It!
