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Termyn8or -> RE: So who all likes old stuff ? (6/7/2007 6:14:26 AM)
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That is so rich "an empty room full". LOL. So true though.
I guess I asked for it. Someone mentioned wedding gifts and someone mentioned a stove. Now I am sad thank you. (joking)
When I was a kid we had a very unusual toaster. As far as I know it may have been one of a kind but I doubt it, one thing's for sure, nobody else had one. It was a Toastmaster and instead of a spring it had a motor to raise and lower the toast. It also had a quite accurate darkness setting.
It was a wedding gift to my Parents and therefore predates 1960. I wish they had left it in the box, I bet it would be worth a bundle about now. And we wrecked it. Remember I said noone could ever control me ? Well, bitch as she might, Mom couldn't keep me from sticking the toast back in to melt the butter. It still lasted about 15 years. That toaster spoiled all other toasters for me. Hmmm, perhaps eBay.........
And I got something you'll never find on eBay. A naked lady ashtray stand. There are only five in existence. Some friend of my Grandfather's had a girlfriend, and while visiting her he broke a lamp. He worked at a foundry and glued it together and used it as a mold. I guess he remade her lamp for her out of aluminum, and it is chrome plated. This is from the 30s and back then it was an arduous process to chrome plate aluminum.
There she is downstarirs, one arm up in the air like the statue of liberty, holding a tray for an ashtray. While considered very risque in the past, today I would consider it quite tactful. Enough detail to be attractive, but really with the pose and just how it was done she could be wearing a skintight bodysuit. The old man had to give up quite a bit of knicknackery to get it in the usual fight that ensued after the funeral. And he couldn't get the ashtray my Grandfather put in it.
There are, like I said ony five of them in existence and I was thinking of having them recast, possibly make 50 of them. I don't think I would ever sell the original. What that means is eventually someone will melt it down for scrap, but after my death or a burglary.
I have been thinking of starting a business cleaning out attics, garages and so forth. Not for the money, but for the good stuff you can find. Actually my carreer is doing well enough I do not have to do this, but I might, just find a couple of unemployed or underemployed buddies, throw them the keys to the pickup and give them the address. Just bring the stuff back here, then we dispose of it. Hell the guys could have all the money as long as I get first dibs on the goodies. But then I wonder if a few items wouldn't quite make it here...........
A buddy o mine came across one of those healing lamps, circa a bit before I was born. Fascinating. I went on eBay and found a few of them going for like $20, which was disappointing, and it was agreed, don't sell it for that. Put it in your basement for a decade or so.
If someone really wanted to get dirty, I bet there are treasures abound in landfills all across the world. Those "you lock you store" places are on top of the world. When people renig on the rent or die or who knows what, they get their hands on what people WANTED to save, things they were willing to PAY to save. It is sorta a nasty thing to do, but business is business.
Old stuff, yeah gimme old stuff. I really don't care if it ain't worth much cash, I'll just put it in my stash.
T
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