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Title: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: KC on December 31, 2009, 03:14:47 PM: It is a large orb....appears silvery in color....that lights up once a year....and people dance/laugh/scream/yell when it drops?

Purpose?
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: KC on December 31, 2009, 03:15:30 PM: Happy New Year All!
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: talesofthesevenseas on December 31, 2009, 04:37:17 PM: I believe the yelling, screaming etc. is a form of mass hysteria, which spontaneously occurs when the highly-collectable Waterford crystal sphere begins falling and all the collectors rush to try to catch it before it breaks!

Happy New Year back attcha!
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: regularjoe2 on December 31, 2009, 04:58:58 PM: A curious item , KC .

I think I might have seen one of these once .

Perhaps it's some sort of hoop-la gizmo ?

Gong Hee Fat Choy ( to everybody ) - related thingy ?
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: ironlord1963 on December 31, 2009, 07:50:59 PM: The Real Question to ask is it Vintage or Antique, Has a life of only a day, Can we call last years Ball Antique, and This years Vintage tomorrow?

Happy New year all of you and thanks for the many lessons over the past year. I believe today is my anniversery on this site, 1 year old, you have all thought me so much.

Love ya all (In a Hippy Dippy kind of way ;))
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: Skinny on December 31, 2009, 08:40:00 PM: As Robert Burns once said, "something something for auld lang syne" and what-not.

Happy New Year!
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Post by: talesofthesevenseas on December 31, 2009, 10:39:31 PM: Gung hay fat choy RegularJoe2!! Have you ever been to Chinese New Year in San Francisco? It ROCKS!!! We get a hotel room overlooking the parade route, throw a party for friends and have a blast every year! I've been going for about 20 years now, since my son was tiny. But for American New Year I just stay home where its safe!
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: D&b antiques on January 01, 2010, 07:01:14 AM: Some body should have woke me up. it's 2010 !
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: wendy177 on January 01, 2010, 07:35:22 AM: I slept right through also!!! May 2010 bring you all happiness, health & wealth!!!
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Post by: D&b antiques on January 01, 2010, 08:03:22 AM: Just a Warm thank you' to all the bloggers, who joined in the last year or so it give's the''old'' Man a break. not sure how long I have been here. but it has been a pleasure.
dontbe has put up with me a long' time. ;D
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: Texasbadger on January 01, 2010, 11:07:04 AM: Hey hold it down a bit, havent had my asperin yet! Happy New Year!
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: KC on January 01, 2010, 05:01:23 PM: What a great start to a New Year....NY Party with 34 young folk at our home playing all kinds of games and sparkling cider...kids brought all the food AND cleaned up at 1am! My family is all well, happy and healthy!

And then....here I am on Antique-Shop reading postings by my Ant. Shop co-conspirators and loving the quest for antiques!

Life is Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Can You Tell Me What This Is?
Post by: talesofthesevenseas on January 01, 2010, 06:19:54 PM: We should keep track of who buys and who sells the most, best and worst finds for 2010 etc.