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By 1929, Packard controlled half the world's prestige car trade.
His cars were associated with Hollywood and the American High Society and was the equivalent of the English Rolls Royce.
By 1953 the variety of models had become far too great for the Packard factory to operate profitably.
Therefor Packed merged with Studebaker in 1954 to compete with the "Detroits Big Three".
In 1955 the new models of this merger were introduced, but because the technicians did not had time enough to solve the technical problems of the cars, the reliability of the car brand fell drastically and sales plummeted.
This was the rerason that the once famous car brand disappeared.
Today this model of 1929 is a highly sought- after collector's item and the highest resale value is $ 115.500,00
His engine was a naturally aspirated petrol engine which was virtually vibration- free.
The car was equiped with a 3- speed gearbox and had a cylinder capacity of 5.2 liters and was equiped with 8 cylinders, each with two valves.
Despite this large displacement, the engine only had an output of 90 HP/ 67 Kw!
Anyway, it is a real thrill to be able to see such an old vehicle in its full glory........
Earthenware of Blois Factory (19th Century), decorated with the patterns of the emblematic royal. (exhibited in the Blois Castle)
Faïences de la manufacture de Blois (XIXe siècle), ornées de motifs de l'emblématique royale (Château de Blois)
This car is my latest and greatest model car. It is one I have been after since I started collecting models. It is the 1948 General Motors Holden. Also known as the 48/215 or the FX. It was released in Australia in 1948 by General Motors as Australia's own brand, to be known as Holden, and was hugely popular in its day. I am super pleased to get this model as it was our family's first ever car back in around 1964 and served us well for 5 years.
This forced perspective shot of the model is not my usual scale of 1/18th, but is a slightly smaller 1/24th scale. Nicely detailed for its size, made by a brand called Trax, who I think specialised in just Australian models, but mostly Holdens as far as I know. They were only released as limited edition collectors items, so I was very pleased to get this.
I actually came across this model purely by chance, as yesterday, another resident of our retirement village came round to buy one of my spare walkers, and after we agreed on a price, he noticed my other model cars. We got talking about them and as it turned out, he had a small collection of model cars too. When I mentioned my desire to buy a Holden FX model, he said that he had one to spare, and so we agreed on a swap - one walker to help him get around in exchange for this lovely little model. A good deal for us both!
My darling better half could not resist a photo if it herself! (I didn't tell her the lens cap was still on - but then I have done that myself!!!)
Was totally blank this week with my creativity - then in a desperate attempt pulled of the bells that come usually with golden chocolate easter bunnies (my favourite) and attached them to this collectors item - a clock with bells that don't work.
There is a mechanism at the back with clogs so you can turn the time.
"Get on with it then, drink and laugh."
At least that's what I think it says on this Bavarian beer stein ("stein" meaning stone). Usually made from stoneware or porcelain, these colour steins with a pewter lid come in all shapes and sizes. This one is small at just 17cms from base to the top of the lid.
The legend is that steins with lids emerged in the time of the Black Plague (a real pandemic that wiped out half of Europe in the 14th century). People were encouraged to have an individual drinking vessel. There is no solid evidence for this, although it seems reasonable to assume that the lid was added to keep out the creepy crawlies in medieval homes.
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Luxury hand-knotted Ghom silk rug, signed Shirazi – a unique masterpiece of Persian craftsmanship (206×137 cm).
Made entirely from pure silk, this hand-knotted rug dazzles with its intricate ornaments and vibrant colors that shift beautifully with the light. A true collector’s piece, perfect for elevating your living space with elegance and sophistication.
👉 If you like this rug, explore more in our handmade collection.
Looking like a fossil, the patterns are manganese oxide crystals that form within thin cracks in the stone. The mineral is dissolved in water that penetrates the fissures in the stone. Science and art meet...again!
In Albuqueqrue, New Mexico, a library with the history of New Mexico has old printing machines as well as the stamps and other tools to the printing trades. The printing presses are still operational but only in the way of demostration as to how the tools of the trade works.
Maybe you remember when these first came out. I found this at a yard sale couple years ago. There's no dark spots on it and it does work.
There is no doubt that German people love their beer. So do Australians - although tastes are changing as people prefer sweet drinks to bitter. We sometimes joke of drinking alcohol for medicinal purposes. But in fact that's exactly what its initial role was.
Whisky (which is just distilled beer) derives its name from the Gaelic word "uisge" meaning water of life. The Latin phrase for that was "Aqua vitae", and if you dig deeper you'll see that this was always linked to healthy living. We know that thousands of years ago beer was produced as a way of cleansing drinking water. It was far safer to drink beer than from stagnant water supplies. In the medieval period monks were devoted to distilling spirits as healing remedies. Even today the most famous of these monasteries at Chartreuse, still produces one of the world best herbal spirits. www.chartreuse.fr/en/
But back to my second German beer mug here. The phrase on this mug can be translated (correct me if I'm wrong): "One would be better never born if the beer you love got lost."
Now here is a far better version that keeps the rhyme intact:
"If beer and love were forlorn, one would be better never born".
Thanks so much to bavarian_beercollection
Iconic Blanton's Bourbon bottle stopper. One of eight versions in a collector series each with the horse in a different portion of its racing stride. Buffalo Trace Distillery is in Frankfort, KY. Photographed before a black felt background. Side-lit from left and right. Focus stacked to maintain complete image detail sharpness. 1 3/4 inches from nose to end of tail.
Sometimes we are in the right place at the right time. I was downtown in Jerusalem this morning and saw people busily snapping photos with their smartphones. The excitement was around a large, black antique car.
The street and mix of sun and shadow were not good for a whole car capture, so I did a few closeups on the shady side. There are some delightful reflections in the shiny housing around the headlamp.
The car is a Zimmer Golden Spirit, and it's owned by a wealthy collector. After a while, the car was driven away and the engine sounded great.
Over the next few days I'll be posting some items related to drinking. Just to assure you I have not turned to alcohol, although in the current social and political environment in Australia (which most of you will now have heard about) turning to drink may not be the worst idea. [Smile].
No, today I present two genuine German beer mugs that I picked up at a market a few years ago. The German phrase on each side of this beer mug says roughly: "Not every love succeeds, but thirst conquers everything."
* If my schoolboy German has failed me, please post a correction below. Thanks.
After an extensive internet search, (prompted by a food video featuring this model) I managed to find these ±4 years ago, and snatched them up, mainly for the blade design, something that I've never seen before.
They've got massive handles, and are brilliantly sharp. They're heavy and powerful, and even though the blade design requires a bit of adaptation of one's cutting technique, they're a delight to use.
Today, in a bit of feline curiosity, I searched for them to see how other cooks like them. To my surprise, the few sites that listed them came up with "No longer available"!
I wonder if Z&H has discontinued them, and like old Bugattis they're going to increase in value?!
Does anyone else have them? How do you like them? Are they becoming a rare gem?
I guess a new wristwatch will make me recover faster.
I think, it's a niece timepiece anyway.
Have always liked the stuff Victorinox makes, for the Swiss Army as well for silly civilians.
Another Switch ..
If you didn't get a chance to see Unsung on TVONE about DeBArge you missed a really interesting story about the DeBarge family and the brothers that were in the group Switch ..
Bobby had a voice that was out of this world!! Such a shame to lose a great voice ...
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Man all I can say is that this man is/was something else .. Despite the scandal, controversy or whatever you may wish to call it .. You still have to give the man his props .. I remember when I was a little boy and I saw these boots I was like "WTH?" But he and Prince seem to be the only men that could pull them off .. Oh those two and Larry Blackmon ..
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Mulan - Disney Designer Princess Collection
Yesterday my mom and I went super early to our local Disney store in hopes of snagging Mulan before she sold out. We were second in line and the store only had 4 dolls. The woman in front of us bought 2 so it was a close call! Thankfully we bought Mulan before she sold out. Mulan is technically my sister's doll, but she said I could photograph her! Yay! n___n
In 1993 I stayed for 3 month in downtown New York during my study at the Royal Art Academy in Den Hague, the Netherlands. I had a Nikon F2 and I shot about 20 rolls of Kodak Tri-x films. I did not have the money to shoot more. I never have done anything with these photographs which is a real pity I think. I finally scanned in everything in a low resolution and put them on my website. Here are a couple of the low res scans (all rights reserved). I am hoping on a museum or a gallery who's interested in the series.
Coming out of store from asking directions to the Lawyer's, saw this across the street and nothing doing
had to take pictures. Thought this was pretty neat.
Cet objet fétiche fait partie de ma collection personnelle, il est en parfait état, mais n'est pas à vendre. L'objectif est un Summitar F 5cm 1:2 -
Vu son état exceptionnel, il pourrait avoir appartenu à une sommité allemande au début de la dernière guerre mondiale (1939/1945), et n'a probablement pas trop fait de terrain.
Je l'avais acheté sur Ebay pour un film de fiction en 2008 (boîtier et objectif séparément).
Le film étant trop coûteux, n'a jamais été réalisé, torpillé aussi par la crise financière internationale 2007/2008.
Le scénario est toujours disponible (en français). J'en possède les pleins droits partagés avec un ami historien (P.G).
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This favorite object is part of my personal collection, it is in perfect condition, but is not for sale. The objective is a Summitar F 5cm 1: 2 -
Given his exceptional condition, he could have belonged to a German authority at the start of the last World War (1939/1945), and probably did not make too much ground.
I bought it on Ebay for a fiction film in 2008 (case and lens separately).
The film being too expensive, was never made, also torpedoed by the international financial crisis 2007/2008.
The script is still available (in French). I have full rights shared with a historian friend (P.G).
Limited edition number 1148 (of 5000). 30cms from base to top of lid. Made in Germany by Detlef Zöller in 2011. www.zoeller-born-bierkruege.de/
This is a beer stein I am proud to own. It contains a real piece of history and brings back fond memories of a visit to West Berlin in 1982. On the left side we can see Charlottenburg Castle and the Nikolai Church on the right. In the middle is one of the most famous sights in Europe: The Brandenburg Gate.
From 1961 this gate became a mark of the border between Communist East Germany and free West Berlin. The story of the wall that was built subsequently is truly incredible and complex. Quite literally overnight, the German nation was divided between the former Soviet controlled east and the free west. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
When I visited West Berlin in September 1982, it was impossible to imagine how quickly the Cold War standoff between a common German people would come to an end - merely divided by the governing ideology that had enslaved a whole community that included some of Germany's most famous and cultural cities, Dresden and Leipzig. As my friends took me to various vantage points along the Berlin Wall, I looked over territory known as "No Man's Land", patrolled by East German guards and killer dogs. These were NOT to keep West Berliner's from entering (though that was the propaganda), it was to keep East Germans from escaping. Over time about 5000 people made daring escapes, but hundreds died in the attempt.
When President Ronald Reagan visited Berlin in 1987, he finished his speech at the Brandenburg Gate with the following words: "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this Wall!" Within two years the people tore it down themselves as the Soviet communist bloc disintegrated. Remember 1989? A time when we all felt the world had a real future.
It's interesting now how walls (whether real or metaphorical) are going up again all around the world. In Australia at the present moment under the pretext of Covid, State Premiers have closed their borders and in some cases temporary walls have been built to keep people from making border crossings. The lessons of history are never learned, and that is one of the reasons I am most pessimistic about our future as a species.
But all that aside, on the top of this special beer stein you can see a piece of the Berlin Wall. On one side there is even the left-over paint from the graffiti that once covered the wall as it encircled Free Berlin. I keep this stein in my study to remind myself of humanity's capacity for inhumanity, all in the name of some ideological clap-trap. And so it will ever be that I will resist attempts to limit our individual freedoms. And frankly many people in Australia right now do feel trapped and imprisoned within their own country (I make no apologies if you disagree, as too many people are being made to suffer in the name of security - always the catch cry of a totalitarian society). I am told now that soon we will require vaccine passports to travel freely within our own country. Just as I witnessed at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin: "Papers please."
Sobering thoughts indeed. You see I do not trust politicians of any kind. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So this piece of the Berlin Wall is like a sacred relic of freedom to me. Long live a free and united German people. Long live the Resistance to Global domination!
I am the clouds collector. I collect clouds in my pictures. Even the fake ones! :o)
I saw the clouds in the shop window of Aberdeen Shopping Mall and just can’t help myself taking a shot of it.
It would be really nice sitting on the clouds and enjoying the sun like the mannequin.
Have a great day enjoying the sun!
In 1993 I stayed for 3 month in downtown New York during my study at the Royal Art Academy in Den Hague, the Netherlands. I had a Nikon F2 and I shot about 20 rolls of Kodak Tri-x films. I did not have the money to shoot more. I never have done anything with these photographs which is a pity. I scanned finally everything in a low resolution and right away sold some. Here are a couple of these scans (all rights reserved).
This blue-tinted glass mug was issued in 1997 to commemorate the aerial breeding surveys that began in 1947 and are conducted annual by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Survey. Population data derived from the surveys are used to establish annual hunting regulations in the U.S. and Canada for more than 20 species of waterfowl. The surveys continue to this day, covering a 2 million square mile area that includes parts of Alaska, Canada, and the north-central U.S.
Taken for the "Smile on Saturday!" theme of 5/13/2023: MUGS & CO.
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In 1993 I stayed for 3 month in downtown New York during my study at the Royal Art Academy in Den Hague, the Netherlands. I had a Nikon F2 and I shot about 20 rolls of Kodak Tri-x films. I did not have the money to shoot more. I never have done anything with these photographs which is a pity. I scanned finally everything in a low resolution and right away sold some. Here are a couple of these scans (all rights reserved).
There are two other major attractions at Burger Junkie. One of them is a real collector's item (unfortunately currently out of order). It's a restored Gottleib's Dragon pinball machine. Current generations of young people look on in amazement, while us older folks gladly try our hand at beating the machine. Just don't tilt! Sure beats computer games any day of the week.