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The Object of My Affection

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



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