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16th Century Reliquary Found in Essex Field
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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By a four year old metal detecting, no less (with a little help from his father, but that's not nearly as interesting a headline...).
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Damned objects of sentiment
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And there's the first swap. The cigar god is gone, the person calls, wants to tell me what they have to swap but I cut them short, that's not the purpose.
That's not the porpoise...
Ironic, foreshadowing.
And he comes, I see him through the window, he opens and inspects his new acquisition, leaves his offering in place, and I watch my window, waiting for him to go and then waiting a little longer because I don't want to seem to eager.
It makes these -20 degree nights a little more exciting.
When I've waited a while, long enough that I don't entirely look like a nerd, I go and get my offering.
It's a statue, carved wood as well, about 8 inches tall, 4 by 2 inches at the base, of a dolphin leaping from the water. Or porpoise.
It's not "small", or as small as I was hoping, but I could live with this. Well, no, I couldn't, but it's a crap shoot out there and I appreciate that this is the chance you take...
But he's attached a little note, that his grandfather has carved this, and how would my karma be if I tried to trade this on? And now I'm stuck with it. Damned objects of sentiment.
Antique Painting of Choo-Choo Train
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: For Sale
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"So you really think it's by Michelangelo?" I said.
I know a thing or two about art, it didn't look like a Michelangelo to me but I could tell by the nails in the back that it was old and it would look pretty good across from the picture I have of the crying circus clown by Picasso and the little girl praying at the side of her bed with the back of her pajamas fallen down by Da Vinci.
"If not by the master himself, certainly it's in the school of. It's hard to say, back then they'd get the apprentices to paint the pictures and just go around and sign them at the end" he said.
"Like Andy Warhol" I observed, because as I said I know a thing or two about art.
"Exactly".
So I'm selling this fine, Antique, Old Masters Style (possibly even Michelangelo) painting of a choo-choo train. $25.00. It's old. I can't make out the signature and so I've not verified it to be a Michelangelo, but what does it matter? Great art speaks to the soul, and why should it's value change because of the brand of artist?
Antique Radio Case / Talking box
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Exactly as pictured, missing a small bit of trim on the left side, no knobs or tubes.
Note this is an original item, not a reproduction.
Provenance? I'm glad you asked.
When I was a kid our family was pretty poor. Not the "I got an X-Box 360 for Christmas but I really wanted a WI" kinda poor that frequents the foodbanks nowadays, more the "My father was a dustman, he wears a dustman's cap" kinda poor. Anyways, one day he brought this radio home. Well, not a radio per-se, it was just the case but it was good enough for us. Every night, as we huddled about the fire he'd put the radio on his head and give us the news.
"Thees ees radio Reichssender Hamburg" he said in a funny voice, and then it changed "Germany Calling...." he said in another funny voice, all proper sounding, and he began to give us news of the war.
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