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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 145892, member: 360"]In terms of inherited items...my grandmother's Singer 99 sewing machine from the 50s, which I formally took possession of, about a year after she died in 2011. </p><p><br /></p><p>...other than that, I still have my 1860s campaign writing box: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://scontent-syd1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12986924_1718573701734442_3200935249282594689_n.jpg?oh=4b25b166022fb598328c7692ee3995ea&oe=579A4E65" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I'd lusted after one of these since I was five or six years old, ever since I first saw one in an antiques shop. But the prices that they sell for around here are often prohibitively expensive, and often in terrible condition. </p><p><br /></p><p>I picked this one up about 2010, during my second trip to London. The guy I bought it from had purchased it at auction about three months before and hadn't been able to shift it, despite repeated discounts. So I managed to get it at a price I could finally afford, and brought it home. It took me about four years to get it to the complete state that you see now. It is arguably my most treasured possession. </p><p><br /></p><p>Wild dogs wouldn't part me from it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Other antiques might come and go, but this one, I'll hold onto forever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 145892, member: 360"]In terms of inherited items...my grandmother's Singer 99 sewing machine from the 50s, which I formally took possession of, about a year after she died in 2011. ...other than that, I still have my 1860s campaign writing box: [IMG]https://scontent-syd1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12986924_1718573701734442_3200935249282594689_n.jpg?oh=4b25b166022fb598328c7692ee3995ea&oe=579A4E65[/IMG] I'd lusted after one of these since I was five or six years old, ever since I first saw one in an antiques shop. But the prices that they sell for around here are often prohibitively expensive, and often in terrible condition. I picked this one up about 2010, during my second trip to London. The guy I bought it from had purchased it at auction about three months before and hadn't been able to shift it, despite repeated discounts. So I managed to get it at a price I could finally afford, and brought it home. It took me about four years to get it to the complete state that you see now. It is arguably my most treasured possession. Wild dogs wouldn't part me from it. Other antiques might come and go, but this one, I'll hold onto forever.[/QUOTE]
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