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Opium pipes?

 

I use many of my antiques, though like Cheers, not always for their original purpose.
I love boxes, wood, metal, carved, repoussé, inlaid, and use most of them. I use several carved Indonesian Jepara correspondence boxes to keep antique fans in. I also have proper Japanese antique lacquer fan boxes for their original purpose.

This is a Javanese treasure box, meant for valuables and for 'keris jimat', small talismanic/magic kerises. One of the Madurese 'inhabitants' on top, so it is used for the original purpose:

 

LOL @ pipes!

 

I used to have a 1930s-40s waffle iron, got it at a flea for $5. I used it every Sunday for years until the element on the top part stopped working and I couldn't find anyone who could fix it. It made the best waffles of any waffle iron I ever had!

 

So do I.
I use them mostly for costume jewelry and trinkets.
Used to be able to find sterling ones back in the day for next to nothing. Humidor boxes, inlaid, Chinese jewelry chests with jade. I don't have any carved ones though.

 

Great thread!
First of all is the house we live in from 1930 and used for is original purpose.
Got a 1970 VW "the thing", but is not running for the moment....
And the calendar gives us the exact date;

 

So you don't use it as an antiques storage space with some additional living facilities, like some of us?

 

Indeed, we live in a caravan in the garden ....

 

Watch out for the current storm. I'm not too far from you, more inland, and I can see identified objects flying past my window.
Haven't seen a caravan yet.... I'll get my butterfly net out, just in case.

 

I have a '73 Thing, also not running. Best vehicle I ever owned

 

Not right now thanks....
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Never actually.

 

Worth quite a bit perhaps even as is.

 

Holy camel bumpers Batman!

 

Too bad.
I suspect it’s easy to fix.
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I see them all the time.

 

And for playing David and taking out, likely permanently, the local burglar(s).

 

Bought in '89 for $900.00 and slowly restored through the years....engine first then electrical, interior, new rag top...then some body work - there were minor dents in both rear doors as well as various dings elsewhere on the body.
Was out early one Saturday morning in 2005, slowing down to turn left into a yard sale when the lady behind me hit me so hard (35 mile/hr zone) I did a 180 spin in the street. She caught me right on the bumper edge and that whole corner is crunched way in toward the engine. Kind of warped the frame & afterward the doors would pop open while driving.

It's now stored out at my family's farm. Very sad Thing =(

 

What a dips**t.

 

That is bad!
Got mine second hand, it wasn't even a old timer at that time.
It just went out of service, and needs to be restored now.

 

This morning's shave. The toothpaste jar, razor set and the tray are all well over 100 years old.