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Found on the street at a mattress makers workshop. Brought over to India from Chinese clothes factories. This is the lint picked up from the factory floor, repurposed in India as mattress filling.
Urbino
6:50 PM on October 22
Canon EOS 20D, 24-70 mm | ¹⁄₁₀ sec at f/2.8 at ISO 1600
© 2005 Mark Gillespie, all rights reserved | File:2A_051022_201
Client: Robins & Morton Construction
Project: Florida Hospital East
Specific: Food Services
© 2007 • All Rights Reserved
This is a natural product used to lacquer timber. It is harvested from the branches of trees. The Laq is the dung of beetles that infest a tree. When it is mixed with a solvent such as methylated spirits it can be applied to timber. It has a dark reddish colour on application and a matt finish. Similar to shellac but you don't need to kill the beetle to harvest it.
What I liked: the color relationship between the wood and the paint on the wall, and the regular vertical lines of the door frames.
Work: Bldg 18, Redmond, Washington
The creche!
Held on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July 2004, this was the first Salvo Fair to be held at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. It was a two day event with 31 exhibitors and 1,800 visitors.
For info on the latest Salvo Fair see
Rooftops of old Graz. - 4:30 PM, October 18, 2005; -Graz
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, 24-70 mm, ¹⁄₂₅₀ sec at f/5.0 at 40mm;
© 2005 Mark Gillespie
An incredible find. I picked up this photo and partial invoice for $20 at an antique mall in Findlay, Ohio. The picture, taken by photographer Victor Dye, shows the residence of Samuel Slatzer at 215 South Bever Street in Wooster, Ohio. (Unfortunately, the house was demolished between 1960 and 1982.)
The invoice reveals that Slatzer paid at least $998.92 (about $20,000 in today's dollars) for building materials for the house. These materials included sash weights, window sashes, flooring, sheathing, siding, and cut lumber. The purchases occurred in November and December, though the year isn't recorded. Slatzer moved to Wooster from Franklin Township between 1910 and 1920, and judging by the house's design, I'd guess a date in the second half of the decade. The lumber and materials came from Wooster's D.C. Curry Lumber Company, which managed to hang on until 2018 and was just down the street from Slatzer's house.
What's interesting, to me, is that Samuel Slatzer evidently paid for the materials himself, rather than allowing a carpenter or builder to handle such things. He farmed before retiring and moving into his house, so it's hard to guess his construction knowhow. Did he build his own home? Or did he make the purchases on behalf of a builder, who actually did the hard work of choosing materials? Did the plans come from a pattern book? All mysteries lost to time. In any case, construction records for particular old buildings are about the hardest things to find, so I give thanks to the antiquing gods for smiling upon me!