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The theme for “Smile on Saturday!” is "ring the bell".
I am a collector of many things, including clocks. I especially love chiming clocks, so when the theme was announced, I thought immediately of the bell chimes inside my clocks.
This is a shot taken into the back of my 1880 Seth Thomas and Company mantle clock. It has had its inner workings given a complete clean and restoration, and its brass wheels, cogs and its chiming bell are beautifully shiny.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" on the 19th of April is "embossed glass". When the theme was announced, I looked through my glass collection and selected one of my more unusual pieces of glass… well for my collection anyway. Most of my collection is made up of British or European glass, yet this piece is American. It is an American Pattern Glass “Daisy and Diamond” spooner from the late Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century. The pattern name comes from the delicate daisies and diamonds embossed into it. Although it doesn’t appear in my photo, it has a slight lavender colourisation to it, which indicates that it is old glass. You’ll also see a couple of bubbles in the ruffled edges, which also identifies this as pre 1920s glass. And what is a spooner? In an ordinary middle-class or lower-class home in America at the turn of the Twentieth Century, knives and forks were kept in a drawer, very much like they are in all households worldwide today. However, the spoons were kept in the spoon holder next to the sugar bowl that was left on the table. There wasn’t a centrepiece, just necessary items on the kitchen table. Some spooners can be mistaken for large sugar bowls since they have handles on each side and are a similar shape. Spooners, however do not have lids. They were designed, as the name suggests, to hold spoons. Most spooners are older than the 1920’s. They are often identified as early American Pattern Glass or pressed glass. Most glass spooners were produced with company patterns that were named. The names can be fanciful and descriptive, such as “Eyewinker”, which refers to orbs that look like winking eyes in the glass. I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile!
A small rain shower as seen from Big Spring State Park, Big Spring, Texas. One of two or three rain showers, moving through the Big spring and Howard county area of Texas.
When we visit my daughter in Colorado, we often stay at an Airbnb. Usually, we do not meet the landlord.
On our last visit, a beast of a vehicle roared past us. It was this "Slingshot" in the picture. "Hey, that looks like Scott" (our landlord), who I recognized from the icon photo in the Airbnb form.
It's a 3-wheeled, open two-seater. So, it's not a car, not a motorcycle. I contacted Scott, we met, and he allowed me to take pictures of this amazing vehicle.
“Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.” – Robert M. Hensel, American Guiness World Record holder.
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 12th of July is "clock face", which is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays time through the use of a flat dial with reference marks, and revolving pointers turning on concentric shafts at the centre, called hands. This theme is wonderful for me, as amongst the many things I collect, I have taken after my mother and collect antique clocks. This left me with many choices of clock faces for me to photograph. In this case, I have opted for the face of the very first antique clock I ever bought with my wages: a Sessions mantle clock from the early 1900s. They don’t make them like they used to, and this clock has been steadily going without problem or complaint, keeping good time and requiring no more than a weekly wind with its original key for more than three decades now. Bearing a sterling silver plaque on its front, it was presented to its first owner by the employees of Cornell Ltd. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
Established in 1903, the Sessions Clock Company, known colloquially simply as "sessions" was one of several notable American clock companies centered in Connecticut. Sessions and its predecessor (E.N. Welch Company), along with the E. Ingraham Company, the Ansonia Clock Company, the New Haven Clock Company, the Seth Thomas Clock Company, the William L. Gilbert Clock Company, and the Waterbury Clock Company collectively produced most of the mechanical clocks made in America between the mid Nineteenth Century and 1950. Around 1935, Sessions ended its production of mechanical clocks and produced electrical clocks exclusively. In the early 1950s Sessions begin to produce timers for television. In 1956, Sessions was absorbed by a company interested mainly in their timing devices.
What was your favorite AMC vehicle? I always wanted a 70 Javelin made to look like Mark Donohue's Trans Am racer.
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This silver drinks set is not all it may appear to be at first glance. It is in fact a 1:12 miniature drinks set, made by artisan Clare Bell at the Clare Bell Brass Works in Maine, in the United States. Each goblet is only one centimetre in height and the decanter at the far end is two- and three-quarter centimetres with the stopper inserted.
The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” is “all in a row”.
When I heard the theme, I really wanted to do something using simple silver pieces reflecting off a mirrored surface. This miniature 1:12 artisan drinks set arrived at my home recently after several months in transit. I had almost given up hope that I would ever see it when it arrived. It seemed to be the perfect choice for the theme. I hope you agree.
Clare-Bell Brass Works is an American manufacturer of fine dollhouse miniatures. Each miniature is precision machined from solid brass or silver metal, carefully hand assembled, and in some cases gold plated for lasting beauty. They are located in Lovell, Maine.
I saw this rascal crawling across the road where I am working. I ran to the pickup grabbed my camera, swapped lenses and ran back to where he was at and couldn’t find him. I had to step out into the clean ditch because I was afraid I was about to step on him. I looked into the direction I thought he had traveled and found him laying there. With my 100 to 400 lens I was able to get these shots. He never got excited, never started buzzing, but he tested the air while I was in front of him.
nice to see the legend updated and back on the streets
Car and Driver rates it 9.5/10 !!
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The theme for “Looking Close on Friday!” is "things with teeth".
If you follow my photostream, or are a member of "Looking Close on Friday", you will have seen that I had the perfect photo a few weeks ago with my smiling zipper. More is the pity. Luckily, I am a collector of many things, including clocks. I especially love chiming clocks, so when the theme was announced, I thought of the cogs with their teeth on the insides of my clocks.
This is a shot taken into the back of my 1880 Seth Thomas and Company mantle clock. It has had its inner workings given a complete clean and restoration, and its brass wheels and cogs with their teeth are beautifully shiny.