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◊ 2012-08-23 19:19 |
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◊ 2012-08-23 19:22 |
rjluna2- some pre-WW2 lighting![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
◊ 2012-08-23 19:51 |
Nice, they are mostly one light system table lamps and the sconce and chandier lamps are usually flame blunt tip bulbs. Here is one of my specimen similer to what they used in the 1930's posted at GE Coated Flame Tip Bulb. My comments at Internet Movie Light Bulb Database. |
◊ 2012-08-24 03:35 |
Could it be that you have a very curious hobby? No, there is nothing wrong about that, but I like it when people have curious hobbys. Just like a man I know. I had a very old canning jar (called "Reich's Einkochglas" - that was made somewhere in the 1920s). I sold it to him via eBay two or three years ago. Then he told me about his hobby - collecting canning jars! Before that I've never heard of collecting canning jars. I'm not surprised of any curious hobbies today, but it is great to see that not everybody collects stamps or modelcars (like me - modelcars, not stamps!). But that leads me to one question: How did you come to this hobby? It's a very interesting question for me. I know how I came to my hobby: I like old european cars (american cars as well, but not only old ones). In fact I have not enough money to get a real Crown Victoria as a police car or a Tucker Torpedo, so I started to collect them in 1/18. Before I had Matchbox cars, but a few years ago I sold them. Only 1/18 are still in my collection. -- Last edit: 2012-08-24 16:59:13 (G-MANN) |
◊ 2012-08-24 03:49 |
@Phil Leon: I have always been interested in light bulbs since I was a baby ![]() ![]() -- Last edit: 2012-08-24 03:50:20 |
◊ 2012-08-24 05:54 |
I looked thruh the your album and it is really interesting to see things from times that are long gone. This is something that always fascinates me. And behind every piece is a bit of history. Do you still got your first bulbs? Does it take lots of space to collect bulbs? And where do you get these old bulbs? BTW - you wrote that you lived in Mount Prospect in Illinois. For me - as a big car enthusiast - it would be also interesting to know if you ever have seen the famous Dodge Monaco of the Mount Prospect Police back then. There's a modelcar of it (I've got one of them - very hard to find these days) and it would be interesting to know if they had them in the 70s (I know that they have a Monaco today - a restored one). |
◊ 2012-08-24 13:47 |
I was too young to remember the era Mount Prospect, IL police cars until 1979/80 ![]() Oh, yeah. There are pieces of history on how they make and trademarked these bulbs for the last 130 years of making incandescent light bulbs and others. ![]() The first bulb I have own? Probably long gone by now, I still have some bulbs after I started collecting in the early 1970's. Probably like this: Westinghouse Signal Precision that I stole it from 1973 ![]() |
◊ 2012-08-24 13:51 |
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◊ 2012-08-24 14:18 |
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◊ 2012-08-24 14:23 |
I used to steal food,when I was a teen... ![]() |
◊ 2012-08-24 20:58 |
I used to steal badges and license plates on scrapyards. |
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-08-24 21:00 |
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◊ 2012-08-24 21:12 |
Or from abandoned cars on the streets. No, not from running cars, owned by somebody ![]() For many years I had always these two items with me. Every time, when I left the house. ![]() The little hook is an original VW-tool, for pulling off hubcaps (all VAG-cars, except the NSU's incl.K 70). Both tools are still by the hand on my desk. You never know... The rubber, they are laying on, is stolen, too. From a junkyard. I cannot remember, from which Rover model exactly. |
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-08-24 21:45 |
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◊ 2012-08-24 21:56 |
![]() For what purpose? For educating clueless blokes, who are saying "cars with plastic bumpers are great?" Well, comprehensible. I've annother little helper in my car (but never have used it until now): the roll of a mechanical writing machine. Handy, no metallen rattly sounds, when it's stored in the car and good too place between seat and inner sills. And not illegal, too. In Germany you can get trouble with the cops and maybe use your driving license, when they find weapons in your car. Even a pepperspray can cause at least discussions. P.S.Better not quote everything, the pics and so ![]() -- Last edit: 2012-08-24 21:57:40 |
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-08-24 22:03 |
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◊ 2012-08-27 21:41 |
Before I'll go on my vacations, we want to mount some items in our house to make it more burglarproof. My wife will feel safer then (she has no interest to join me). She against my idea, to place something else with the (for me) important cipher 70 at our property ![]() ![]() |
Andre Malraux ◊ 2012-09-03 21:11 |
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◊ 2012-09-03 21:21 |
I'd take this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrzMGdYWZc -it was legal in ZA, as a local has confirmed me ![]() ![]() |