The Object of My Affection

Everyone has items in their attics and cellars, the beautiful memories of the past. Clothing and original accessories are at least a hundred years, but often these resources are valuable for their existence, if not completely dominated the century do. Dusty, broken or missing pieces, we have the courage to point them to the landfill. So we cling to them, tenderly wrapped in newspapers and clicking on the box corners in big letters.

One day someone comes on the rangeGet your valuables, as new, increasing its size to a beautiful objet d'art and the creation of a vision of hidden spotlights and alabaster pedestals in your living room. I am as a person. I've missed mandolins, violins, rescued near Tiffany lamps as teenagers, rare wind-up toys from Japan, the delicate three-birdhouses from China, nineteen thirty nine and a tricycle child to succeed. Some things have been found in a flea market and others with me, by friends or transferredNeighbors.

My most recent project involved the excavation and restoration of a thirty Japanese boat compass. This relic was sixteen pounds a man staff at the home of a neighbor who has done during the Second World War in a plane crash. Made of solid brass so grateful for the high seas, no expense was spared for the production of these hand-made compass. A beveled glass windows provided access to a blue-steel floating compass. Glass rear offered additionalDisplay, illuminated by an oil lamp built on the side. Someone took it all with a dark green color that triggers this half time had peeled paint. Undeterred, the cracked and peeling white paint in the family of spiders that live there. A week later, he took my sweaty knuckles scuffed a brand new boat compass. The widow almost cried when he saw it and immediately found a place of honor in the living room.

Encouraged by this success, the lady gave me a newand exciting project in the form of nineteen twenty phone Two Wall original. Complete with microphone and speaker ear piece, according to the Western Electric itself, have maintained the original platform book matching number. The metal parts are nickel plated brass, the speaker and ear piece is Bakelite, and the case is durable oak shelves. The image in my head have been pre-power of the people in the chat party line on this Early American invention. I spend three weeks ago, enjoythe restoration of this beauty and as a reward for my hard work - the smile on the face of the owner.