The most immovable(unsalable) antique

Free To Good Home

But around here most people assume that means not them

So if you want it gone put $100/OBO on it and it will disappear somewhere around midnight

 

FTGH = Free to good home.

 

First To Get Here........like 1st come first serve ......

but that was just a guess.......albeit....not so far off.

Around here we have city pick up on wednesday for larger throw away items...but the scrappers beat then to anything of value .

 

The typewriter is the same model as that used by Jack London to type some of his novels. Somewhere online there's a picture of him using one. The keys strike the bottom of the platten, so you don't see what you've typed until a couple of lines later. Probably weighs 25-30 lbs.

 

According to DH, the most immovable (unsaleable) antique in our house is all my clutter which happens to include a bunch of china and pottery...

 

FTGH: Free to good home?

 

It only took one kid per class to demonstrate the valuable lesson

And now they want smaller class sizes

 

I remember them from school. Cutting stuff was a real thrill, they'd shear through almost anything. And neatly too, very little I did was remotely neat, so it was a real change.

 

And I always loved the sound they made as they cut.
I can still hear it in my mind.

 

Ah..the memories.....as a retired educator ...so remember these....and the sound...but how about the smell of mimeograph ink...??? anyone else remember it..?

 

Some of us used to sniff it on our papers - although we had been warned not to (which I'm sure is the reason we did it heh heh).
Don't remember it doing anything to us though.

 

They were built to last, weren't they.

 

You only THINK it didn't do anything. Heheheh!

 

Dang! That's what my husband said when I told him.

 

Pitney Bowes postal scale. I bought this early on, thinking I might be able to list it. Hahaha! It's another 30 lb item, but it's also the postal scale I use. Has a 10 lb capacity. Stands about 20" high.

 

Overhead projector for one of those carbon-arc magic lanterns, c1900. About 30" tall.

 

I have one of those huge old paper cutters. Would not sell it for the world. They do seem to bring decent money around these parts.

 

For Bob..

Jack London lived in my neck of the woods. It used to be an annual field trip for all the grade-schoolers - not sure if it still is. I'll bet his typewriter is there.

http://www.jacklondonpark.com/

 

I actually purchased a check writer about a year ago. I have had some interest in it but have only recently put it up for sale. I guess I'll find out soon enough if I'll own it forever, lol.