The Antique Thread

Lozzer

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I completely realise this will trigger the mandatory **** taking. Ra ra here here blah blah and all that (to confirm I’m a very working class Northerner!)

However I have to admit to having an interest in the old, history and objects.

So how’s about showcasing your interesting old objects? I mean we drive Maserati’s so there’s gotta be a touch of ‘class’ within us all right?

Todays find for me, a very old stage coach journey flyer from the Horse and Griffin in Whitby (still open to this day).

A 14 day journey to London. 1794. “All last wills should be made before departure”!

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CatmanV2

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Oh I do remember! We have a canteen of cutlery that was presented to Mrs C's Great Grandfather in 1927 from the Farmer's Union. Letter detailing all the donations. WW2 bomb damage and all. Still gets regular use. I'll take a photo later

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Not quite an antique yet but it's a rare bit of railway history - I found this '50s British Railways whisky bottle in the vast cellar under Rugby station about twenty years ago, it was served aboard the Glasgow to Euston express of the day, needless to say it was empty when I found it....!

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From the same period is this BR Western Region enamel totem, my other half's parents were from Maidenhead so when it came up for sale we bagged it, the chap we bought it from rescued it from a skip outside the station in 1970 when the new 'corporate' black on white signs were being installed....

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Here are the wee bottles. Need to find out about them.98675
 

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MarkMas

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I have a bunch of portraits of distant relatives, including one of Robert Knight by George Knapton, painted in about 1748.

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Harry

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There are hundreds in the collection in Preston, could be useful for research. There some similar ones in this photo. 98701
 
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I completely realise this will trigger the mandatory **** taking. Ra ra here here blah blah and all that (to confirm I’m a very working class Northerner!)
Have you been to the Science Museum in Manchester Ryan?
I only went once. About thirty years ago, when I lived in Manchester.
I imagine that it's much bigger and better now. Even then, it was
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Ryandoc

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Have you been to the Science Museum in Manchester Ryan?
I only went once. About thirty years ago, when I lived in Manchester.
I imagine that it's much bigger and better now. Even then, it was
quite impressive.

I haven’t but it sounds right up my street. My thing as a theme is science and engineering along with a splattering of other items.

My home office is my gallery, she indoors is fine with my collecting as long as it stays limited to that room, and there’s not much room left lol.

A few more of my items including my framed drawings of an 1846 Sanderson beam engine, it’s model drawings by Clarkson and Son of York

The copper plates on the wall are actually chemists letterhead printing blocks, mostly from Ireland, Belfast, Coleraine etc. I was born in Belfast so was a nice find

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Ryandoc

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Whilst not in the antique theme but more collectors item. My F1 treasure, if you zoom in on the ‘pic within the pic’ you may notice a cool little detail!

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Whilst not in the antique theme but more collectors item. My F1 treasure, if you zoom in on the ‘pic within the pic’ you may notice a cool little detail!

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lol, hard to miss! Whose autograph is that? I stopped watching F1 years ago, when I found the race build-up with Mssrs Walker and Hunt etc more interesting then the racing. Keep meaning to get back to it. At least for Silverstone and Monaco. So, I've no idea who races for who, these days.

You have exquisite taste sir. As an Ulsterman should ;)

The Museum of Science in Manchester used to hire recent graduates for guiding roles and the team was split roughly 50/50 gender-wise. I dated one of the guides who worked there for a year or so and she told me that certain machines, particularly the large steam driven ones, with huge pistons as big as a person, would send vibrations into the surrounding floor and get the girls rather hot under the collar, on those days when they were feeling susceptible. As the months passed, I got quite adept at recognising which days my girlfriend had spent mostly in the hall filled with steam engines. On some days, it was impossible not to know ;)
 

Ryandoc

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lol, hard to miss! Whose autograph is that? I stopped watching F1 years ago, when I found the race build-up with Mssrs Walker and Hunt etc more interesting then the racing. Keep meaning to get back to it. At least for Silverstone and Monaco. So, I've no idea who races for who, these days.

You have exquisite taste sir. As an Ulsterman should ;)

The Museum of Science in Manchester used to hire recent graduates for guiding roles and the team was split roughly 50/50 gender-wise. I dated one of the guides who worked there for a year or so and she told me that certain machines, particularly the large steam driven ones, with huge pistons as big as a person, would send vibrations into the surrounding floor and get the girls rather hot under the collar, on those days when they were feeling susceptible. As the months passed, I got quite adept at recognising which days my girlfriend had spent mostly in the hall filled with steam engines. On some days, it was impossible not to know ;)

That’s a certain Mr Vettel! Pic taken on his F1 car in the Red Bull facility!
She sounded like a keeper what went wrong haha
 

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I've got this , a fossil of one of the oldest things on the planet , my wife wanted to use it as a stepping stone in the garden :eek:

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