Vintage Giggles aka What are they smoking????
#5391
Horse chestnuts = buckeyes. Here in Ohio they are lucky items.
Of course, we're all a little nuts.
And osage oranges (hard green things that look like brains) are the things that keep away spiders.
Of course, we're all a little nuts.
And osage oranges (hard green things that look like brains) are the things that keep away spiders.
#5392
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 144
I think this might come in handy...(tongue in cheek)
http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-s...AdIdZ546097900
http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-s...AdIdZ546097900
#5393
Some of the creepy crawlies in the basement sure make me think I might be willing to try one though.
I bet that 66 was bought used, and that is why it was cheap. Easy to find out with the model number. It could easily have been 10-15 years old in 1925 that the original owner traded in on a new side clamp with an electric motor on it, or one of those new fangled 101's that had recently come out!
#5395
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 476
I bet that 66 was bought used, and that is why it was cheap. Easy to find out with the model number. It could easily have been 10-15 years old in 1925 that the original owner traded in on a new side clamp with an electric motor on it, or one of those new fangled 101's that had recently come out!
Good point. I don't know the serial number cutoff. Maybe Cathy knows. I think the price points to Cathy's explanation, though. I think prices always went up, in absolute dollars. Adjusted for inflation they did go down. But $45 was a lot of money in 1925. Maybe the $7 allowance was for cash. The brochure I have says "Liberal discounts for cash."
#5398
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
This one is in St. Louis,MO. They must have really good stuff to smoke there. The treadle cabinet looks like it may have been out in the rain.
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/atq/4177004734.html
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/atq/4177004734.html
#5399
This one is in St. Louis,MO. They must have really good stuff to smoke there. The treadle cabinet looks like it may have been out in the rain.
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/atq/4177004734.html
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/atq/4177004734.html
Really? Doesn't look very faint to me, unless they think the areas where there is still paint are where it is worn.
#5400
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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enough faint wear to make me faint... at least at the price.......
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