Posted 2 years ago
bahamaboy
(225 items)
These are just a few more lighters from the 50's and 1960's. Not real old and nothing special but not worth throwing out.
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
Adrift in a sea of digital apps for every imaginable function, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. But consider the chatelaine, a device popularized in the 18th century that attached to the waist of a wo…
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If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
The mysterious packages kept arriving, some from eBay, others from the Home …
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
While researching her book, "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," Maureen Stanton came across all sorts of characters. For years, she shadowed her antiques-dealer friend …
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Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
We tend to think of the union of vanity and technology as a particularly modern affliction. It's only recently that science brought the world botox and collagen injections, skin peels, liposucti…
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Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Vintage kites from all over the world hang from the ceiling and walls of Richard Dermer’s popula…
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Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
It’s easy to think of pin-up art as a charming relic of the old boys’ club—images that might line the walls …
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Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
It’s not unusual for men of a certain age to have a soft spot in their hearts for the look of vintage guitars and the sound…
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Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
A keepsake, an item that recognizes a loved one, strikes a deep, sentimental chord in each of us—particularly that of a sweetheart. The popularity of keepsakes grew in the United States during the period from 1917 to 1919 as our country ent…
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American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes
I was walking to school one day and saw all these bikes in the garbage. I was just amazed because I didn't have one and I found it incredible that anyone was throwing them out. So I gathered…
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Cigarette LightersVintage cigarette lighters are among the most popular collectibles today, b…
I like your lighters too I have alot of them too.Thanks again .Chat any time.toyman
I'm beginning to wonder to myself?? What "don't" I collect?? It's a bloody addiction, I tell ya... Not a collection, but an addiction, plain & simple. Absolutely "terminal" with no cure in sight... Back at ya on the chat...
It's a sickness , I know that for sure, sometime the wife says Fred Sanford doesn't have half the junk I've got, lol
Buttttt... There are far worse addictions to have... or so they say. Whoever "they" are...
Yes I have it bad! Do you have any medicine for this problem?
Like the actor said in "Con Air" that played Garland Green the "mass murderer" (the name escapes me). "There is no medicine for what I have".
You are alright bahamaboy.My sister was maried to a guy from bahamas his name was clive and. I always liked his sayings.He would say things like Dont let someone put a bad spoke in your wheel.And you cant put a good man down.Ya I rember him.It sounds like your agood guy too.
Actually I'm a born and raised Floridian. Just spent a lot of time (11 winters in a row) on the out islands Bahamas surfing & diving. Mainly Abaco, Eleuthera, San Salvador (Columbus 1st landfall) and Cat island. Lived in a cave near the surf break between Gregory Town & Hatchet Bay on Eleuthera for almost 9 months til the policia made me leave the country because my papers had expired and I wasn't contributing to the economy. Actually was selling my extra catch of lobster & grouper each afternoon to the natives to keep myself in Becks & St Paulie Girls. This was not what they liked to see from the touristas. They (we) were supposed to support the economy, not live off it. Don't know why I just went off on this island tangent but it does bring to mind another item to post. I just unscrewed it off my garage wall. Coming up very next post. So stay tuned...