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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: waywardangler on January 22, 2011, 11:09:44 pm
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOSMAN!
She has been known to impersonate women from another era.
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A very Happy Birthday to you , hosman321 !!!
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Aw thank you guys! That sure made me smile!
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Hope you have a Happy Birthday Hosman.
Isn't Wayward's photo hilarious.
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A HAPPY BIRTHDAY .... am I late this time?
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Right on time mariok!
The picture that wayward posted was created through a site that tales posted in the "Antique Talk" section of the forum. They are fun. :)
Plans for today are to visit my favorite antique shop (which I haven't been to since early December) and maybe a movie. Thanks for the birthday wishes guys and gals.
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Happy B-day hosman!!!!!! Happy hunting at your favorite antique shop!!!!!!! ;D
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Happy Birthday!!!! Antiquing sounds like a great way to spend the day!
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Happy Birthday !! Have a great one !!!
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Happy birthday!! May the coming year bring plenty of antiques your way!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY...may you have a fabulous year ahead!
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Wishing you a spectacular day!!
Don't forget pics of anything you happen to drag home! ;)
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Thanks again everybody! And great picture, sapphire. It's a redhead girl, too! I dragged home a few small items from the antique shop, including a cast bronze shaving mirror. I love love it. My mom bought it for me, I told her no more presents. >:(
Anyways, I got home to search ebay for more and I found a TON of my exact mirror. Some of them honestly look like repros. Either repros from back in the day trying to copy mine or modern repros. And quite a few of them are cast iron. I'll post pics of mine later, I'm heading out for more shopping and and a movie. But I'll post a link to an ebay one like mine in a second.
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This is the closest one I have found to mine, I think it is exactly the same. Except mine isn't cast iron. A lot of the others are different and another one I found looks really terrible. I'll find it again later.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Art-Nouveau-Figural-shaving-mirror-/280617842613?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41562077b5
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WOW, I feel smart! It actually is cast iron, a magnet sticks to it. It looks and feels nothing like cast iron. None of the plating has worn off, except around the mirror. Which I aready knew was tin or steel. The patina is great and really green in places, even on the inside. Crazy!
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Cool mirror!
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Very nice... Glad you had a fun day!
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Thanks guys, I did have a very fun day. Here's a pic of my mirror, pretty much the same thing as the ebay one, except some silvering loss to the mirror on mine. I also picked up two cylinder phonograph reproducers in the original boxes for $30. I will re-sell them, one with a box is worth much more than the $30 I paid for both. They gave me a 1920's-ish snuff bottle full of snuff with cool stickers on it for my birthday. I like the look of it because the label is the same logo that has been used since the 1700's, so it looks older than it actually is. ;)
I found a great early 1900's oak office chair at the Goodwill. Had a bunch of cast iron underneath and the original leather. It was great but they wanted $70 for it. It had big ugly new plastic wheels on it, so to me it wasn't worth that much. I see them on CL in similar shape for $60 with original wheels. They weren't willing to take less so I passed it up.
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Nice mirror, Hosman, and looks like you had a fruitful day. You're also quite canny in not going for that chair and walking away. It makes you feel quite pleased with yourself if you can be that objective, and is kinder to your purse. ;)
I walked away from two pieces on Sunday, the two vases my wife had liked, only because of the condition. Then quite a nice clock, originally priced at £85 and they came down to £60. I told them that in my opinion it was worth (to me) £45 - £50 because of the work needed, but they weren't prepared to come down any more. It worked well, sounded sweet, and the case was in pretty good condition as it was an 1890s piece, but the dial was in a terrible state and it would still require a complete dismantle and clean. It'll probably be there next week, and the week after, so it's not yet lost if I change my mind.
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REALLY LIKE THE MIRROR! Have to look for one for one of my daughters.
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Pretty cool, I sold the broken and untested phonograph reproducer for $62.00 on ebay. I didn't realize it was broken when I bought it. I only paid $30 for both. I think I will keep the non-broken one as a backup because if I need one in the future, I won't want to spend $100+ to replace it. As time goes on, they will be harder and harder to find. Plus, it plays extremely loud and clear so I don't want to give it up. :P