Posted 2 years ago
Vestaswind
(46 items)
I like to collect advertising items that make me laugh and are different. These are three of my favorites. Notice the Rat Chips has an antidote in case of ingestion.
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Vintage Guru Reveals Her Glamour Secrets
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intage can be intimidating. It's certainly not as simple as going to the mall, finding your size, and buying a mass-produced outfit. You have to dig through racks and racks of wildly diverse items, with mysterious sizing, looking for…
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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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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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The Beautiful Chaos of Improvisational Quilts
What would jazz look like if it had a physical presence? According to Sherry Ann Byrd, a celebrated quilt maker who posts on Show & Tell, it might look something like the hand-made "M-provisational" q…
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Our Dad, the Water Witch of Wyoming
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of …
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This 1959 Goggomobil Is Insanely Cute and Gets 55 MPG. Why Can’t Detroit Do That?
The last time we spoke to Justin Pinchot, he took us on a guided tour of his collection of toy robots. Recently, J…
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California Cool: How the Wetsuit Became the Surfer's Second Skin
When Bob Meistrell started surfing in Northern California during the early 1950s, 20 minutes was about all he could stand in the frigid coastal waters. Despite the constant rush of …
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The Unfiltered History of Rolling Papers, Plus Tommy Chong's Big Fat Jamaican Vacation
It’s kind of ironic that Tommy Chong, the smokiest half of Cheech and Chong, i…
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World's Smallest Museum Finds the Wonder in Everyday Objects
Tucked away in a lower Manhattan back alley, the freight-elevator-sized, generically named Museum is one of New York City's newest curiosities.…
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Fightin’ Femmes: Unmasking Female Superheroes with Author Mike Madrid
When I was growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, reading comics wasn't as popular as it had been in the ’40s or ’50s. But my older sister had comics, including a big collection of “Betty and Veronica.” Our parents encouraged us to read everything, so at 6 years old…
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Advertising TinsThe widespread practice of packing food in tin cans and containers was a di…
And it never spoils! LOL
Yeah and it's always safe, with poison printed all over it haha
Wonder if they made a dip for them chips? LOL
It's sick! They make it sound like food.
The oil can's name and logo sounds like a comerical you see in the middle of the night.
LOL LOVE these! They crack me up! Thanks for posting them, needed a good laugh!
They make me smile. I'm always on the look out for the next inapropriate item.
The first picture( of the guy ) is sort of confusing , I thought at first it was some sort of girdle or truss or, Oh never mind .....
I know it would be worth more if the item was in the box, but somehow I'm glad it's empty
Just a note before they put elastic into the tops of socks, they used these to keep your socks from falling down.................some 'fancys' still use them to keep looking sharp all day, your socks never look like they are drooping ! Just so you know these were not 'out there'..
~giggles~ Neither were my son's jock's from baseball. Never the less when they were done with them I got rid of them :)
Hoppe's lubricating oil for deep penetration for delicate mechanisms? I don't think I'll be using this on my firearm!! But then again it is non gumming...maybe I could use it on my Congress Garter to keep my steel from rusting.No metal touching me is a definite bonus but I still don't want is rusting.
HA HA HA