The only advantages a modern machine has over an antique one are: 1. Greater variety of stitches. 2. Speed (although this is arguable). 3....
[IMG] These were the two machines I was talking about, BTW. LEFT: Singer 15. 1945. $30. RIGHT: Singer 128. 1936. $15.
Shangas is here now. You can calm down, people. Regrettably, what KoT says is pretty much correct. Something like this is not gonna be worth...
Oh! My bad... I did a search for KMA and Korea and similar terms and that never popped up. Sorry I wasn't any help.
KMA is the Korean Meteorological Administration. So it may not have anything to do with the war, per se, but they probably are Korean.
Legal blindness tends to do it. --- Thanks CX. Always looking for more. Problem is they usually break the bank, so I don't look very often.
Well you coulda just asked! Here: [IMG] This photo is a bit out of date. I've added a couple more since it was taken.
Uuuuh... Not that I go birdwatching, but...at least half a dozen, I'd say. If we threw in opera glasses as well, nearly 20.
Thanks. Latest addition to my collection...I have an addiction...
I'm the first to admit that yes, I tore off the old housing and put the new blue ones on. The old housing was leather and it was literally...
I am but a humble and simple peasant, ignorant in the ways and whiles of antiquities. What's a hibachi?
Calling-cards and the like were usually placed on salvers (small trays). On a doohickey like this, I could see them just flopping out the sides...
It'd make a nice liquor cabinet.
Pen tray on a desk. Or possibly for storing postage-stamps and spare nibs. Hence the curved edges, so it's easier to slide them out when you need...
Old fashioned hospitals give me the willies. Well, okay maybe not old hospitals...but old sanitariums and old lunatic-asylums do...horrifying...
It's a lovely thing. A flashlight or torch like this wouldn't date much past the 1920s. Vest-pocket stuff has been popular for ages. They were...
Yep. Pocketwatch key.
There's quite considerable staining and wear inside the mortar and loads of strike-marks on the pestle. That didn't get there overnight. So I'd...
They look like brackets that hold lightbulbs & shades on lamps.
AF is right. I'm always very hesitant to believe people when they say they have something that was made in the 1940s. The 40s and 50s were times...
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