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Just some of the things that catch my eye as I go about my daily chores :-)
Have a lovely Tuesday and thanks for the visit.
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UNDS'd these Janoskis today for last day of division.
Finals here I come!
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Souvenir
China Souvenir Supplier.
Drugged Quality, Competitive Price!
A omnium gatherum of souvenier spoons from various states and countries.

Razorbacks bring rockabilly sound to Bordentown Record Collector
What's quite missing is a good set of spoons. In this tune, it's supposed to story-tell what is considered to be the “scariest twilight” of a man's life – but really, you come away feeling good. And that's what rockabilly is all about. No take it easy doldrums.
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Review: “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money” In 2009, the Bonding of Collecting Clubs Web site listed 6000 groups whose objects of desire range from airline spoons to Zippo lighters. Martha Stewart Living, a part of the omnivorous collector's empire, can appearance the collectibles markets, |
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Watch out Tate, the new National Museum of Art is open Williams was a fertile collector of contemporary art who died in 1984 and requested that his collection should be held in trust, allowing his trustees to put it on public exhibition. There's also a fund in his name so that new pieces of public art can be |
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Wannamaker speaks about ice cream memorabilia at museum Tin spoons became doltish spoons during the Depression. Dairy Queen came about in the late 1930s, making its name known with the continuous batch implement that froze liquid from its point of entry to seconds later when it exited through the dispenser |
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Patch Passport: Treasure Hunt in Huntley Meet approval out the picture of the sweet set of measuring spoons just for mom. Even though Mother's Day has past, any day is a good day to give mom a gift. Huntley Pass and Jewelry Mall: Located in the back corner of the Huntley Outlet Center facing and more » |
I don't follow fashion blindly - Taofick Okoya
I don't comprehend fashion blindly - Taofick OkoyaI like the Rolex because it's been there and it's standard, the Royal Oak is also a collector's thing, I also love the Constantive Varieties. So, what would your dream home look like? Home is really not about how expensive or the putting for me.
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Citi Sued Over Indonesian Debt Collection That Turned to Murder The attorney for the responsibility collector tells a different story, of course. Yes, intimidation was used, the attorney says. But it was not physical intimidation. The debtor, the attorney alleges, died of a thump. Like, the brain kind, not several strokes and more » |
Overlooked punk/garage albums
With the Hi-Dip Hullabaloo bringing 13 of Denver's punk and garage bands onto its stages for a midsummer mini-fete Friday July 1 and Saturday July 2, there's no better time to celebrate record-collector duskiness. The AV Club touched base with
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Townshend Auction Gallery LP's (all in omit condition) and about 350 cd's all from a private collector/ musician---Also a large quantity of professional photo- graphy/developing items (ya gotta at it out)---Very Special is a barn fresh early '60s (or older) "Vespa" |
Akan Goldweights in the Balkan
The visitors start with a donation of utensils used in the gold trade, varying from scales, spoons, forowa containers and a kuduo vessel for safekeeping gold dust and nuggets. Following are the displays of the categorised figurative and geometrical
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I have recently aquired some collecting spoons
The kind that are small and people put on display. I have no interest in them and would like to sell them. How do I find out how much they are worth ???
Unless they have burnished in them they are just about worthless. Sorry. Try eBay and don’t expect much.
I Desperate straits TO KNOW HOW TO GET THE TARNISH OFF THE SILVER AND SILVER PLATED SPOONS ,WITHOUT DAMAGING THE SPOONS.
Tarnex, sold everywhere.
They are grit one's teeth base metal and have become pitted with some rust, I believe. How can I safely remove the pitting?
Any rubbing of any abrasive is effective to change the surface appearance of the spoon in some way. I don't know if that's a bad thing or not for you...but it can be. I know a person who, upon determination some rust on an antique sword, proceded to steel wool the rusty area...which caused the rubbed square footage to look completely different than the rest, since the abrasive altered the surface. In an attempt to make it all match again, they then rubbed the whole sword, and ruined an otherwise primordial antique finish.
Just be very cautious, and maybe test an inconspicuous "back" area first.
Also contemplate on if it's just surface rust, or if the rust has been allowed to actually pit the metal. Surface rust can be removed...but the pitting will linger, and so might the rust inside the pits. The only way rubbing would make pitting disappear, is if you remove enough surface from the higher neighbouring metal, to actually lower it to the level of the pit. By the time you get there, you make actually smooth out the spoon's details, spell its edges, or blur decorative shapes.
If they are not really pits, and have not etched into the metal, then you could rub off the rust...but be cautious, and start gentlly. Often, solely rubbing some light oil, with a cotton cloth, will remove the very beginnings of rust, and the oil coating will keep it at bay for a while.
There are chemical ways of removing rust...and dialect mayhap some of them could do so without etching or hurting the base metal. I've heard of solutions of vinegar, and lemon...there's also a commodity called Boeshield that looks like it does not harm the base metal. Check websites of collectors groups, and see what they use.
A big thoughtfulness is that they may be plated spoons. I doubt that they simply made them from steel. If that were the case, you'd be fighting the rust battle all the time. If they are plated with hollowware, or chrome, you might not want to abrade that too heavily. There are polishes for those metals, that might brighten them up, and also kick a bit of the rust for you. Semichrome Dispatch comes to mind. I used it to spruce up some nickle-plated steel, and it make the nickle shine like a reflection, and also brightened up some of the bare steel spots.
Also, be sure that the spoons are steel (magnet). There are other metal alloys that can create oxidation that resembles rust...but isn't...and they could react differently to different chemicals...or perhaps have their own polishing rules.
Keeping the spoons waxed might be a OK champion way to preserve them from here on out. Car wax works...so does bees wax. Renaissance Wax is a great choice, too.