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One set of original and well-worn 1966 Mustang keys, embossing almost worn smooth on ignition key.
Image spans 2.25in. across.
Representation of “Eros”, Greek god of love, embossed on a bottle of “eau de toilette”. It is 5 cm wide.
For Looking Close…on Friday theme of Embossed Glass, here is a small glass dessert bowl that we inherited from my mother-in-law. I don’t know the exact date or pattern, but I think it is from the 1940’s.
Scrapbooking was a popular pastime in Victorian times for both children and adults. Creating a scrapbook was not only a craft project, it was also a way of preserving memories.
In the 1800s, the automated printing press was invented. Suddenly books and printed material became much more widely available. As well as writing in their commonplace books, people began to cut out and stick in printed items. Things like greeting cards, calling cards, postcards, prayer cards, advertising trading cards and newspaper clippings were collected. Some of these books contained a mix of personal journal entries, hand-drawn sketches and watercolours, along with various scraps of printed material. These books were literally books of scraps.
By the 1820s, collectable scraps had become more elaborate. Some items were embossed: a process by which a die (a metal stamp for cutting or pressing) was punched into the reverse side of the paper, giving the front a raised three-dimensional appearance.
In 1837, the first year of Queen Victoria's reign, the colour printing process known as chromolithography was invented. This lead to the production of ‘ready made’ scraps. Brightly coloured and embossed scraps were sold in sheets with the relief stamped out to the approximate shape of the image. These pre-cut scraps were connected by small strips of paper to keep them in place. The laborious task of cutting out small pictures was thus removed, and sales of scraps went soaring. Many of the best-quality scraps of the period were produced in Germany, where bakers and confectioners used small reliefs to decorate cakes and biscuits for special occasions such as christenings, weddings, Christmas and Easter.
These embossed chromolithograph scraps are of German and British in origin and date from the 1880s.
The circus themed cards with their gilding are part of a set of eight which are French (although unmarked) and date from the 1870s.
Embossed metal ashtray. Bridge of the Americas - Panama.
Bridge of the Americas
Coordinates 8°56′35″N 79°33′54″W
Carries Four lanes of Carretera Panama-Arraijan, pedestrians and bicycles
Crosses Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal
Locale Balboa, Panama
Characteristics
Design Steel through arch bridge
John F. Beasley & Company
Total length 1,654 m (5,425 ft)
Width 10.4m (34ft)
Longest span 344 m (1,128 ft)
Clearance below 61.3 m (201 ft) at high tide
History
Opened October 12, 1962
Statistics
Daily traffic 35,000 (2004)
The Bridge of the Americas (Spanish: Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge) is a road bridge in Panama which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Designed by Sverdrup & Parcel, it was completed in 1962 at a cost of US$20 million, connecting the north and south American land masses (hence its name). Two other bridges cross the canal: the Atlantic Bridge at the Gatun locks and the Centennial Bridge.
Part of a glass teaspoon holder, I put colourful paper
inside to get the colours.
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Old metal bottle opener bearing the effigy of king Louis XIV in helmet and armour.
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