Hint for antique dealers: you do not put price stickers on the fronts of old tin type photographs. Even though the sticker peeled-off very easily, so did some of the photo. Real smart.
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Hint for antique dealers: you do not put price stickers on the fronts of old tin type photographs. Even though the sticker peeled-off very easily, so did some of the photo. Real smart.
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Gah! That, that's horrible! Oh criminy, surviving for however many decades only to fall prey to sticker damage.
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Yikes
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yes the photo is on life support suffering from sticker shock
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Sheesh! Everybody knows you write the price on the back in Magic Marker.
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Heh, you're dating yourself, Jim. It's "sharpie" now.Originally Posted by Jim
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Must've yanked the price tag off the post.
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I wanted to show off some Penny Black stamps so I nailed them to a display.
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I thought it was inappropriate of me to name the shop.
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If they weren't so cheap , a cellophane envelope to cover the tin type would have held the price sticker without damage.
" I AM AMATEUR , DESTROYER OF ANTIQUITIES !! " .
'If it has a bar code , it's......probably not an antique " . Murphy's law # 17 .
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In a hundred years, or less, those 2D "barcodes" are becoming more common, the opposite might be true.
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My favorite barcode is lifting a finger to signal for another beer.
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My photo professor wife would probably have had a few words with the dealer had she seen that.
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My cousin in Tacoma sent to us an ancient photograph of my Grandmother ....taken around 1920 ...we think.
The photo had been glued to some kind of substrate , which although it was non-archival, it probably saved it
as such , of which she scanned it and sent to me. It is a wonder it survived at all. What a thing,.... to peer back in time to see a young woman which you have only seen as 60 , with her hand on her hip, making crepes for 15 people.
" Long ago, it must be...... I have a photograph. Preserve your memories. They're all that's left you. "
Sage advice from Simon and Garfunkle .
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One of my eeriest findings in my perusals of this vast place we call the Internet was archives of photographs taken with an early colour process. Around the time of World War 1 early. What makes them special is that with modern processing, the colours are as good as modern photographs. It is visually stunning study of pre-revolution Russia and it has to be seen to be believed. Because how the pictures were taken, there is some smearing due to motion, but otherwise they look like photographs a time traveller would take.
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Thanks for the link, ravens_cry. Yes, that really is awesome - and I don't used that word very often.
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So I have been, only mere months after I joined too. Oh well. Still, I think after, whew three years, they deserve to be shown again.
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Man, how do you think I feel about damaging my trilobite's eye? Trilobites had sperical silica eye lens in life and mine still had all the little glass lens in place when I bought him. I looked at them under a hand lens. Trilobites focused their eyes by moving the lens back and forth instead of changing the lens' shape like we do. Bet they have unguessed optical qualities if somebody looked hard and close at them. The freakin' thing is of a type that died out in excess of 420 million years ago! What, planet Earth had only two continents then? Vertibrates were still a slimey, jawless joke and if I recall correctly land plants hadn't even evolved yet.
Yep, all that vast amount of time and *I* messed it up.
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