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self | March 5, 2011 | self

Posted on 03/05/2011 6:45:58 PM PST by Netizen



TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bethyngalw; captainjackscompass; jacksparrowscompass
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To: Netizen

I don’t think it’s for ashes or trash because you want to see that, so the lid wouldn’t have a window


41 posted on 03/05/2011 7:12:21 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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sorry, you Wouldn’t want to see that


42 posted on 03/05/2011 7:13:28 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Netizen

Leonardo DaVinci’s flux capacitor.


43 posted on 03/05/2011 7:17:21 PM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Netizen

Clashfan’s got it right! It’s a silent butler!


44 posted on 03/05/2011 7:18:01 PM PST by old school
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To: cripplecreek

I’m with you on that. The rod out the back may have gone into a hole on a post near the wheel.


45 posted on 03/05/2011 7:18:36 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)
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To: Netizen
Maybe a pocket watch presentation box missing the liner and the gilding? This one is angled.


46 posted on 03/05/2011 7:19:51 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Netizen

Jewelry or watch box?


47 posted on 03/05/2011 7:23:35 PM PST by TChad
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To: Kirkwood

Well that is a good idea. I was thinking presentation bod, but of what.

Cigarette box bothered me because I don’t know if you want cigarettes exposed to light.


48 posted on 03/05/2011 7:24:42 PM PST by Netizen (Day 15 of the Wisconsin legislature held hostage., and yet another deadline is issued...)
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To: Netizen

“Cigarette box bothered me because I don’t know if you want cigarettes exposed to light.”

Keep in mind the time frame of the article. I doubt light exposure was a major factor back then, especially if it was kept on a fireplace mantel or away from a window.


49 posted on 03/05/2011 7:30:09 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Netizen

Looks like an anvil to me.


50 posted on 03/05/2011 7:30:40 PM PST by Delta 21 (Make your choice ! There are NO civilians.)
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To: Netizen

Some cigarette boxes were crystal or all glass. I don’t think light exposure was really an issue so much as having a lid to keep air out.


51 posted on 03/05/2011 7:33:50 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Delta 21

Bet the blacksmith is a little fella :^)


52 posted on 03/05/2011 7:33:55 PM PST by The Cajun
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To: Lancey Howard

Chumley would pay 300 dollars for it and get his ass chewed off..LOL


53 posted on 03/05/2011 7:34:16 PM PST by goat granny
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To: cripplecreek

Or a chronometer...


54 posted on 03/05/2011 7:35:59 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: goat granny

LOL


55 posted on 03/05/2011 7:36:19 PM PST by Netizen (Day 15 of the Wisconsin legislature held hostage., and yet another deadline is issued...)
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To: Netizen

The tin strikes me as not original. The box is too ornate and the tin isn’t. I suspect the sides were originally glass.

Presentation or viewing. If it’s deco it’s early, rather organic as far as the decoration, leaning more toward art noveau.

Is the protuberance on the front one of the “handles” you referenced?


56 posted on 03/05/2011 7:36:29 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: goat granny
Watch, Chumley will wind up owning the pawn shop one day, the boy is thinking all the time :^)
57 posted on 03/05/2011 7:37:12 PM PST by The Cajun
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To: nuconvert
way back when, people rolled their own cigaretts. I was thinking a home made jewelry box, but others have better ideas.

Today I roll my own and would use it for a cigarette box. Roll sometimes a carton at a time...while watching TV. As a child my father taught me to roll his cigarettes for him, not as good a the machines you get today...also how to fill a pipe. That is an art, too loose and it draws to fast , too tight and it does not draw at all.. He's been gone since 1988 and I still miss him...:O)

59 posted on 03/05/2011 7:41:04 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Museum Twenty

My guess, too.


60 posted on 03/05/2011 7:41:53 PM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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