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What about the text around the base? I can make out "Bier u Frohes", beer and happy/jolly/fun, the meaning depends on the rest of the text.

 

I'll try and get a closer look at the base on my next go.


I found this amazing baseball board game and wondered if anyone was familiar with it and had any details? It was my grandfather's childhood toy.




This is another cool find. I had already put away some dominoes, pick-up-sticks, and a 60s Clue game but this was still left out when I grabbed pics.


It says: Opera
Then smaller letters: Made in US zone Germany

 

you've got a treasure trove of highly cool collectables ...

 

That mouth organ box looks really cool. It’s worth about £10, I was assuming a little more but what can you do.

The a website documenting the birth and progression of Jim Prentices Electric Baseball. Here’s the bit on your version, not sure of true value, don’t sell well in auctions :

 

Imagine they looked pretty much the same for a long stretch, but the typewriter looks like the one my mother had, the one I practiced typing on & very occasionally typed a paper on. You get strong fingers. Mother may have acquired hers 1948 - 1955.

 

Thank you guys so much!

I spent like a half hour online researching, trying to figure out why the main piece and the two boards didn't seem to match... only to have my dad have a light bulb moment after all that and go 'oh wait it is two different games.'

DAD!!!

 

I haven't figured out what those boards go to but did find another vintage kids' game:




Gotham Ice Hockey
1930s
Pretty cool albeit dusty!

 

Very cool, hope it cleans up well. They can be worth a bit if you have the box and it cleans up really well. But it’d need to go well xD xD

 

I don't think the box is here but it's such a mess there's no way I can be sure what's down there until I'm done. But I think my dad really loves this one so he'll probably keep it.

 

Even better! Better someone who loves it has it!

 

Here's a panoramic shot of the bottom with the German:




Does anyone know anything about military memorabilia? It's assumed that my grandfather brought this back; he was in the army in the Second World War. The thinking is it's some kind of hat pin.




Adorable old candy tin!


Probably an old chamber pot


Barometers


Stamps

 

Just a suggestion, you could post some of these separately in the different categories.

 

I figured there is so much stuff that I'd end up exploding the boards if I made a new thread for everything.

 

I love seeing all this stuff...keep it coming!!!!!!

 

@Justbrowsing according to this old listing your badge is police
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/obsolete-welsh-british-swansea-police-149851578

 

WHOA!! Thank you so much for finding that out! I kept thinking military so my grandfather but now I have no idea. We don't have any police officers in the family that I know of. Let alone any that lived in the UK.

There's a mystery afoot...

 

glad to help @daveydempsey can probably tell you more about it You are finding some pretty neat items in the basement, keep posting away!

 

https://m.ebay.ca/itm/VTG-Colonial-...587689?hash=item51fd092be9:g:fpUAAOSw5jpZgkCk
1 of your weather stations, I think.
The Taylor barometer is from 1927 from what I see about it in google.

 

"Bier u (und) frohes Lied macht nie Lebensmüd": beer and a happy song and you will never tire of life.