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Those cracks are from the sheet metal being stressed from pressing. Not too old.
San Francisco had a municipal fire department since 1849 Chicago since about 1835
EAGLE SCOUT is pretty easy to see in the pics The 'rivets' could be from adding a sizer inside at one time
That would be one of earliest eagle scout rings I've seen
But Nancy, if I didn't save it, it would have gone to the scrappers
[ATTACH] Tip your puter, the software keeps rotating it.
There's a myriad of special business phones. Generally the collectors have less interest in them than in home phones. The two handsets should be...
Looks great behind glass in dim lighting from a rope 25 feet away
Those are from home molds. They are still being cast today from the old molds.
It looks like die leakage from an extruder or injection molding machine. Maybe PTR, possibly ABS.
Never seen that type before. So you actually need a hole in the center of the cutters. That's messed up.
Same design both sides. Looks more like nickel silver but I got black tarnish off with Simichrome. The bottom chain dangles are weakly magnetic....
I think the C is likely for carbide. All that matters is the dimensions for your slot. Get the four sided ones so you can rotate to a fresh edge...
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Seven inches long, 1-3/4" bowl. Norwegian. [ATTACH] Bowl intentionally angled [ATTACH] Lip on spout [ATTACH]
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Measuring in inches, it is probably just a bench 'snap gauge'. For checking the tolerance of parts.
The neighbor guy was telling me about an incident one night. He was sitting on the front steps after dark and saw something moving across his...
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