Old Things

[bill2000]

Remember the old single edge (disposable) razors? This is a precision razor strop.... sharpening the old blades... it sharpens both edges at the same time while flipping the blade to even the sharpening....mechanically amazing!!!!

I will reasonably price this contraption to a collector..... for preservation.....pm if interested.

When I was growing up my Father had one of these. My bedroom was across the hall from the bathroom. The sound of that razor clacking back and forth was my alarm clock. Drove me crazy. I'd give a lot to have him here to wake me up like that again.

 

[Targets Guy]

Some of my grandparents items. Including the buffet.

 

[mauser9]

Grandmas 1920s Ball perfect Mason jar.It is a number 13 and in nearly mint condition .The legend goes that the old timer moonshiners would throw away number 13 out of each case as they though it would bring bad luck. The lamp behind it was hers as well ,sorry the picture came out sideways I haven't got use to this new gadget yet.

Guess I should have kept those old Ball Jars. I remember they were later used for target practice full or not. Wonder how old they were? Oh well too late now. LOL

 

[PALADIN85020]

Here is a set of U.S. coins from 1912. That was the year my mother was born, and I gave them to her as a gift on her birthday years ago. They came from an antique shop in Bisbee, Arizona, the town where she was born.

Here are the "heads":

...and here are the "tails":

Here's another "old thing." Dates from 1939.

John

 

[rubiranch]

Grand Pa had an auto repair shop in the 1930's. The vice was made to apply hot patches to tire tubes. The small blasting machine cleaned spark plugs.

I'm not real old but I've used both of those way back when I first started working on cars.

Thanks for the memories.




Its not like really old but I have this toaster that still toasts.

Probably the oldest thing I own is a handgun.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Do you Mugs keep your Mugs?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

And then there are those coins.
This one is special, it was a gift from my SF Buddy.
He actually acquired it in the Philippines.

 

[PALADIN85020]

This old kitchen knife is one of my most prized possessions. I remember when I was a youth my father withdrew it from a drawer in the kitchen and explained that although it was well worn from sharpening over the years, it was still a useful knife, and often used. He also told me that the knife was given to them as a wedding gift when he and my mom were married in 1936.

They kept using it; my mom died in 2008, and it was still in her kitchen knife drawer. A lesson well learned - never discard something because it's old and worn - particularly if it still works.

I keep this knife today to remind me of their love and frugality through the depression years and beyond.

John

 

[goodguywithagun]

This is an ashtray with a model of the V1 rocket that the Germans shot from occupied France to England. My grandfather made 10 of these and would trade them for cigarettes then trade the cigarettes with farmers food after the war. Pretty cool.

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[Targets Guy]

Do you Mugs keep your Mugs?

yes indeed.

 

[Targets Guy]

My dad's Navy survival light from wwII

Still works.

 

[Targets Guy]

New Kitchen Aides surrounding old kitchen aids.

By the way I ate breakfast in the 1940s using that table and those chairs. Over 70 years now of having meals at that table all over the US and in Germany.

 

[pawngal]

This old kitchen knife is one of my most prized possessions. I remember when I was a youth my father withdrew it from a drawer in the kitchen and explained that although it was well worn from sharpening over the years, it was still a useful knife, and often used. He also told me that the knife was given to them as a wedding gift when he and my mom were married in 1936.

They kept using it; my mom died in 2008, and it was still in her kitchen knife drawer. A lesson well learned - never discard something because it's old and worn - particularly if it still works.

I keep this knife today to remind me of their love and frugality through the depression years and beyond.

John

My parents were married in 1930 and I have my Mother's old butcher knife, not quite as worn down as yours but many years of use and sharpening on a crock.

 

[pawngal]

In reference to the glass canning jars, the blue ones with the glass lids are the most desirable.

 

[misswired]

Kinda hate to admit it, but all this stuff came outta one of the daily use kitchen drawers.

The brass corkscrew has a guido stamped on one side of the lever and 166 west 48th street New York N.Y. on the other side and a made in Italy stamping.

 

[wundudnee]

My grandfathers watch fobs.

Some of my late wife's tatting shuttle collection.

I have also carried a 1921 Morgan silver dollar for over60 years. It shows no markings now. I started carrying it when an old man told me it was his last friend. If he got down to that last dollar he was going to buy a jug of wine and go find a drunk to help him drink it. Now I'm that old man.

 

[misswired]

My parents were married in 1930 and I have my Mother's old butcher knife, not quite as worn down as yours but many years of use and sharpening on a crock.

My grandmother had a knife sharpening groove cut into the concrete back porch.... she'd whisk her kitchen knife a few strokes and it was meat cutting sharp. I would dull a knife every time .... she had the dynamics of the concrete groove down pat.

I used to buy every old wooden handle knife at the Lacon Trade Day I could find on an early Saturday morning....for a dollar.
Betcha @muleygil remembers lacon trade day!

 

[shouldazagged]

I have an all-nickel-silver table knife, the old style with the straight, parallel edges and half-round tip, that I would guess is around a hundred years old because of the design and the material. I use it almost daily to spread mustard, peanut butter, mayonnaise, etc.

I picked it up for fifty cents in a Goodwill thrift store, and wouldn't part with it for anything. I remember seeing them when I was a boy and they were already old and worn, and I'm past eighty.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I have no pictures of it as she has it packed away but mom has a full eight place setting set of Rosenthal china that was her grandmother's. It is a beautiful subdued pattern done by hand.

 

[Old TexMex]

My grandmothers Kay