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The morning in the thrift shop, as I suspected many people are clearing their curbs of the trash left over from the weekend's "TRASH TO TREASURE". So no end to unpacking rubbish and discouragement, that and it being month end, half-used tubes of toothpaste, bars of soap, bottles of scope, rusty razors, empty shampoo, I should be on the door turning these people away...
But - I find this:
Too good to leave behind, and nobody wants to price it for me...In the end, fifty cents.
The item appears new. Now - zoom into the new-price-tag in the bottom right corner. That's right, $1, 240.00.
Now to find the person I can best offend with this...there's not enough action in my world to require it, but somebody has to want it...given the number of Burlesque Dancers in town it shouldn't be a problem.
One other find, a fine copy of "The ascent of Everest" by John Hunt, 1954, First Edition and signed by the author. By donation. Doing a little research online I find another copy in similar condition, priced near enough to $900.00. Treasure, for sure, but the first treasure of the day made for a better picture...
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Actually 5 arrowheads, counting the 2 that Christopher found.
Monday, cool and rainy, trip out past Balfour with Christopher, do some prospecting up Cedar creek road. Some interesting rocks, promising conditions, but no great finds.
Then back to Balfour where we comb the washout from the ferry landing run off, Chris a few feet ahead of me finds 2 arrowheads, both in relatively great condition:
I'm annoyed beyond measure, but we keep hunting, going down the beach past the restaurant, the bad neighbor to where the new trailer park will be. And heads-down comb the beach for about 3 hours in the drizzle and rain.
In the end I find a total of 3 arrowheads and a couple of scrapers, tools, and a pile of rocks. Just rocks, interesting to me.
Below:
bottom left, a scraper, green chert, you can see the knapping on the edge. Next to it a yellow-ish spear head, the yellow is a patina that forms on the chert over thousands of years, making it tough to spot (vs the fresher flakes), but to handle it you can feel every divot and knapped edge. No coin for scale but it's about an inch and a half long. I say spear vs arrowhead as it's a little think in the center, not well enough balanced to be fired off from a bow. To the right on the bottom, a fresher point, beside that, a grey arrowhead, again covered in patina, next to that a needle or aul, otherwise, a few other tools, scrapers, flakes, and the assorted rocks that I find interesting and invariably stuff my pockets full of. The pink quartzite "scraper" is a paleo-maybe, no obvious signs of work but I found it a little too conveniently shaped to leave behind.
Now, getting a taste for the season...
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So, after the previous blog posts at the Library back home where I'm tackling the boxes of random shit problem.
I unpacked 2 boxes, about as much trauma as I can endure per day.
Finds included:
- 1 broken antique telephone (sadly it might have broken on my watch, now good only for mixed media parts)
- 1 Medalta Crock-Pot lid
- 2 bottles of lavender essential oil
- 1 bottle of orange essential oil
- 1 bottle of wild oregano essential oil
- 1 sonic denture cleaner, new in box (bought for rocks)
- coloured contacts (searched, not good after 10 years, glad I checked)
- 1 bottle Tylenol
- 2 tweezers, 2 nail clippers
- 1 badger-hair barber brush (for shaving)
- 1 hand-blown glass toothbrush holder...
- 1 razor, disposable
- 5 antique calipers
- 1 bottle linseed oil
- 1 plastic container filled with flints and springs from discarded disposable lighters
- 1 filter for vintage 35 mm camera
- pack of 4 flashbulbs
- 1 thing you look through, stereoscope, modern, plastic, suspect it was meant for watching 3D movies on phone but not sure
- 1/4 tube Polysporin
- 12 empty gel caps, in bottle
- 2 (more!) jars of tiger balm
- 1 temporary tattoo of flowers
- 1 bottle of ink for stamp-pads
- 1 legal embosser/stamp
- container of model paints
- a bunch of the old close-up lenses for phone, cheap, clip on over phone lens
That covers most of it. Now only to open and process the remaining 16 boxes...
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The Treasure of the day:
Found at the Thrift Shop with a bunch of Paraphernalia that suggests that someone took this all a bit too seriously.
Why Not? Mr. Tickles has his KY Jelly (or Jam, as I imagine it), some like their three-in-one, and for the Sapiophile, well, add this to the bedside table with my copy of James Joyce's "Ulysses", I mean, really, it can't hurt...
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A 15th Century Treasure Ship lost after setting sail from Lisbon, only to be found by De Beers (2008) in their offshore diamond explorations.