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These are heavy iron pliers which go back to when ex and I bought first house in 1966
I kept the tool box when we parted company and I won't part with these pliers
They expand to quite a width and I still use them to open tops on bottle , jars etc., especially now .

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Pecos said:
I have a Waterman pen that is remarkably similar although certainly not as old as yours. Side-by-side the visual difference is minimal. Mine used cartridges and does not get used except at Christmas when I sit down and write notes in cards. They write so very smoothly.
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I have an astronaut’s pen that writes upside down and I also “had” a pen from Clinton when he signed the NAFTA agreement. I donated that pen to my high school alumni’s association when they had an auction to raise money for the local food bank during the holiday season.I didn’t think it was worth much, but someone bid seventy-some dollars for it, which surprised me.
 
My little boy loved his Big Wheel!
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hollydolly said:
my grandad had one like that too.. and he kept his strop which looked like this. hanging on the bathroom wall next to the sink

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My Gramps had one in the bathroom. He used a straight razor to shave. After I graduated college and was in the Marines, I bought him an electric razor, which he let sit in his one dresser drawer for almost 2 years before trying it. He used it for about a month and then in his letter to me he said he was sorry, but he went back to his razor. I told him no need to apologize. You use what makes you happy. I tried using the straight razor, but it seemed like a lot of work.
 
Been There said:
Is the MG for sale?
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We couldn't part with it, but there is a strong market for vintage MG's, you just need to keep looking.

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Kay & Co Ltd was a mail-order catalogue business, with offices and warehouses throughout the United Kingdom. It was a very successful company, This machine dates back to 1899, Kay pioneered "Own Brand," this machine might have started life in The Singer Sewing Machine factory. A price deal between the two companies would allow Kay to sell with their own label. Supermarkets today sell a lot of "Own Brand," something Kay pioneered way back.
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This is one of the wedding presents that we received back in 1968. The weights are all imperial, as in pounds and ounces.
These scales have given a lifetime's service and will go on & on much longer than we will.
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This is a 1955 Japanese Taron 35mm camera and case. It's still in good working order although
with digital being so easy, just a matter of plugging the camera to the computer, 35mm film
has become a cumbersome faff. Still wouldn't part with the camera though.
 
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When you see our vintage looking clothes you might wonder how they look so new. The answer is that my wife has a considerable collection of original patterns, and sometimes, if she's very lucky, she's even come across vintage fabric that has sat in a drawer for decades.
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Look carefully at our car on the left. My wife is wearing a yellow dress. She came across the fabric at a jumble sale.
Amongst the folds of the fabric was an invoice dated 1947. The dress is made from a pattern of a similar date,
and just to complete the coincidence, 1947 is the year of manufacture of our car. Our appearance that day went down
well, so many times we were asked to pose. By the way, the scene is The New Forest run organised by the MG car club.

Let me give you a better view of that dress, seen here with some strange fellow.

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The lady not only made her dress, my shirt and trousers, she also found
the blazer that I am wearing at some vintage event or other.
 
I remember when I was a kid that it was a fun thing to do to go to the nearest Railway station and take down the numbers of every locomotive that passed through.. and we'd compare with others... we also did the same thing with cars... nowhere near the number of cars on the road back then as today.. but how easily we were pleased during play time...

here's a Video dating back to 1957..long before I was old enough to collect numbers..at London Euston Station

 
Not the classic of @horseless carriage's but comes with a unique story. When I moved to my current address in 2012, it's room and board, so I live with a family, there was a crate in the garden shed that of which no one knew the contents. Nosey me, opened it to find this bike. It still had the factory cardboard wrapping on the bars and had never been ridden.

It seems their Grandfather, who built the house, bought the bike for his wife in the early 1970's, she refused to have anything to do with it, so he packed it in a crate, and there it remained for me to find some 40 years later.
 

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RadishRose said:
My mother and her brother used this to make our family's twice yearly
keilbasa haul. (Christmas and Easter)

As children, my cousin and I sat at her little kiddie table and tied off the ends of the casings with string they cut up for it.
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I've turned the handle on one of those many a time. My mother would save the leftovers for the week and it was my job to put them through the grinder so she could make what she called goulash.
 
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