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Best of luck, may the Antiquer's force be with you.

 

So sad to hear about the "destroyed" property. Not fair to you or the lost history. Such a shame.

 

so how did you end up with those pocket pistols.....and is it wise to h

so how did you end up with those pocket pistols.....and is it wise to have posted them here...?

 

I bought them. Might as well post them as any other find.

 

Oh, I thought they came from the house and were in the same catagory as those weapons confiscated...

 

The weapons were not confiscated, they were 'removed for safe keeping' and then apparently illegally destroyed. There was no legal basis for confiscation.

 

potato, patato....

 

They sure did a great job of keeping them safe.

 

Not different ways of saying the same thing at all, confiscation requires statutory authority to deprive a person of goods, and this was not what happened.

 

They sure did a great job of keeping them safe

In some countries it is said, do not involve the police or your troubles will really start.

I did not think it applied here, but I was naive.

 

seems the result was the same.....legal or illegal......the stuff's gone.

 

Into someone's pocket, probably. No way of proving it.

 

Af, you could always alert the Daily Mail. They love stuff like this. heh heh heh

 

I went to an estate sale last year that was a woman's dream- dolls, linens, clothing, jewelry, glassware, the house was packed. The lady seemed to be a shopalolic, and there were some antiques, not many. She had packed the attic, and the estate sale people said that they just kept finding things. It took them months to set up the sale. She was a hoarder, but kept the hoard stashed....neatly. It was all clean.

 

Home. Exhausted.

 

Rest up, Af, and enjoy being home after a job well done.

 

There is still some junk to remove from the garden and garage, but the house as such is now completely cleared.

The job was much longer than I allowed for (and still not perfectly finished), but the haul of items was larger than expected so balance was maintained. The local bric a brac dealer who removed all the stuff I did not want and the total rubbish and scrap should do well enough out of it as well, but he really worked hard over the last three days just getting the house cleared.

Tomorrow I will collect the boxes of better stuff I sent back with my friend's vanload, and post a few more pieces as single items for comment, there are quite a few I could do with some advice and comments on.
This morning the first thing to do is reclaim the cat from her boarding house, much to her relief I imagine. What amounts to a large cage must be pretty boring after a large house and garden to occupy.

 

All the stuff is now in house and shed, and sorting is just about started.

I found a 1584 book, Coopers Dictionary, but one corner looks as if mice have been at it. Still rare but it will knock the value severely. Still, I very nearly left it.







An unusual (to me)book by Mark Twain.



and some tasters of the stuff.