| Everyone has objects in their attics and
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| | hand-made manufacture of this compass. A
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| cellars that are wonderful reminders of
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| | beveled plate glass window provided
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| the past. True antiques are at least one
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| | access to a blued steel floating compass.
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| hundred years old, but often these
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| | A rear glass window offered additional
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| treasures are valuable in their very
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| | viewing, lit by a built-in oil lamp on
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| existence if not quite making the century
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| | the side. Someone had painted the whole
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| mark. Dusty, broken, missing parts, we
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| | thing with dark green shutter paint which
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| still have not the heart to relegate them
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| | by this time had half peeled off. The
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| to the dump. So we hang on to them,
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| | cracked and peeling white paint inside
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| tenderly wrapping them in newspaper and
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| | did not deter the family of spiders
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| marking the box in large crooked
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| | living there. One week later, my hard
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| letters.Then one day, someone comes along
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| | earned scuffed knuckles produced a
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| who offers to make your precious object
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| | shining new boat compass. The widow
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| like new, raising its stature to a
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| | almost cried when she saw it and
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| beautiful objet d' art and creating a
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| | immediately found a place of honor in the
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| vision of hidden spot lights and
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| | living room.Buoyed by this success, the
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| alabaster pedestals in your living room.
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| | lady supplied me with a new and exciting
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| I am such a person. I have rescued
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| | project in the shape of an nineteen
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| neglected mandolins, violins,
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| | twenty two original wall telephone.
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| near-Tiffany lamps from the teens, rare
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| | Complete with speaker microphone and ear
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| wind-up toys from Japan, delicate
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| | piece, this Western Electric gem even
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| three-tiered bird houses from China, and
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| | retained it's original matching telephone
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| a nineteen thirty nine rich child's
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| | book shelf. The metal parts are made of
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| tricycle. Some things have been found in
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| | nickel plated brass, the speaker and ear
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| a garage sale, others entrusted to me by
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| | piece of Bakelite and the case and shelf
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| friends or neighbors.My most recent
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| | carved from durable oak. Pictured in my
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| project involved the dismantling and
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| | mind were the pre-electricity folks
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| restoring a nineteen thirties Japanese
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| | chatting on this Early American Party
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| boat compass. This sixteen pound relic
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| | Line invention. I plan to spend three
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| was personally carried home by a
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| | weeks enjoying the restoration of this
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| neighbor's husband who was killed in
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| | beauty and collecting the reward for my
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| World War II in a plane crash. Made of
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| | hard labor -- the huge smile on the face
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| solid brass so as not to rust on the high
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| | of the owner.The satisfaction may not be
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| seas, no expense was spared in the
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| | instant, but it's real.
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