View allAll Photos Tagged makepeace

Tata, half sister of Kouande poses in the late-day sun. (3515a)

portion of a flock

 

LALO (Calcarius lapponicus)

 

Makepeace, Alberta, Canada

  

Posted for study purposes

Taken on September 23, 2021

 

A Merlin had made a pass at flock so they were too nervous to actually stop and actually drink at slough

 

the initial larger flock had split up by now

G. Makepeace Building, 136 Digbeth, Birmingham, England. George Makepeace ran a second-hand clothes store here. This building was constructed in 1913 and was designed by James Patchett.

War memorial dedicated September 9th 1920, stands beside the church gate

"To the Glory of God and in grateful memory of the men of Chulmleigh who gave their lives for King and Country in the Great Wars"

1914 - 1918

S Bater; J Bater; R Bater; W Britton; F S Brooks; F Chard; J Chard; L Chalkley; A S J Cox; C H Down; T C J Down; A C Gillies; C Hammett; S J Hannaford; H D Hulland; C H Joce; T Lawrance; A W Kerslake; W J Peters; J N J Powles; W Powlesland; W Tarr; F Thorne; W Thorne; W G Tremayne; P Turner; T Webber; W J Webber; ; R H Smith.

 

1939 - 1945

J. Alderman; G Bird; V Coaker; F G Dodd; H.T. Huxham ; E H Reed; A.C. Slade; J Tucker; I H Tucker;

 

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

www.devonheritage.org/Places/Chulmleigh/Chulmleigh-TheWar...

www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/Chulmleigh/WarMemorial

 

Picture with thanks - copyright Paul Makepeace CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/356723

Royal International Air Tattoo 2016, RAF Fairford, Fairford, Gloucestershire

"Pine-wood", drawing by Karl Ludwig Tischbein (1797-1855) - Greco café, founded year 1760, frequented by Casanova, Stendhal, Fenimore Cooper, Schopenhauer, Gregorovius, Gogol, Turgenev, Melville, Makepeace Thackeray, Taine, Sienkiewicz, Carducci, D'Annunzio, Bjornson, France, Twain, Joyce, Moravia, Pasolini, Pascarella, Palazzeschi, Carlo Levi, Ennio Flaiano, Apollinaire, Berlioz, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Wagner, Liszt, Humperdinck - Via Condotti in Rome

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." - William Makepeace Thackeray

Less than a half mile from the prior shot but now in another state Providence and Worcester local PR3 is near MP 0.65 on the East Providence Running Track having just left their home base of Valley Falls (RI) yard. At left is the big brick former Crown Manufacturing Company Mill dating from 1911 designed by the Providence based but nationally known firm of C. R. Makepeace & Company mill architects. The building was involved in textile manufacturing right up until about year 2000 and is now home to Comtran Cable...but alas they are not a rail shipper and the old sidings rust away derelict in the weeds.

 

After cutting through this tiny corner of Massachusetts, in about 3/10 of a mile they'll be back in Pawtucket, RI where they will deliver one load and pull one empty at Teknor Apex alongside the Industrial Highway.

 

Bracketing the one car is GP38-3 2011 (built as a straight GP40 for the PC in 1969) on the south end and GP38-2 2006 (built new for the PW in Feb. 1980) on the north.

 

Attleboro, Massachusetts

Wednesday May 6, 2020

A submission to our #UnfoldTheUniverse art social media campaign by Tim Makepeace.

 

The artist says, " have been working on a series of paintings about an intriguing area of our galaxy that astronomers hope the JWST can help them image. It is the center of mass of our galaxy.

 

In this work, I have drawn elliptical shapes that represent the orbital paths of the closest stars orbiting the supermassive black hole that resides at the center of our galaxy 26,000 light years away. These works are based on a 3D mathematical model made from the data collected from several land based telescopes over 10 years and are, in a way, modern maps of the core of our galaxy. Although my works are data-driven, their apparent abstraction is inspired in part by the Constructivist Movement, with its vocabulary of geometry, proportion, and optical play. These are themes that runs through much of my work.

 

I began a series of work titled Orbital Mechanics, which attempts to explore a fundamental question of mankind: where are we, and in relation to what? Where are we on this earth?; in this solar system?; and now, with the advent of better telescopes, what is at the center of our galaxy and where is our place in this corner of the universe? From ancient astronomers, to Copernicus, to Galileo Galilei, and continuing on, people have contemplated these questions, sometimes at great peril to themselves. This knowledge of place is also fundamental to the paradigm of power in religion and politics. Knowing where one is, in relation to the center of things, can shift one’s perspective and understanding, and can shift one’s sense of place and self. Knowing ones location is a fundamental desire of man, and the JWST becomes another tool to understand this.

 

Some of the techniques used in these works include the use of carefully controlled small brushes guided with strings to accurately describe each ellipse, and a technique using India ink to paint the lines that trace the orbits in a looser, more energetic way. Because of the colloidal suspension properties of the ink, when the ink is applied in a flooded state, the pigment particles migrate outward, indicating an internal repellent energy within the ink. The result, in the artwork, evokes some of the fundamental energy I am trying to convey, that exists everywhere and, in this particular case, at the center of our galaxy."

 

Tim is one of our original #JWSTArt Art + Science exhibit artists.

 

If you create art inspired by what the James Webb Space Telescope might discover, share it with us! For more information, please visit: go.nasa.gov/unfoldtheuniverse

 

Image credit: Tim Makepeace

BAE Systems Eurofighter Typhoon, ZK356, the second Tranche 3 Typhoon, with a full load of weapons, in the hands of BAe Systems test pilot Nat Makepeace, performing a high performance flypast at the 2016 RIAT.

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Homer

 

[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.29052

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 4958-12

  

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Homer

 

[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.29051

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 4958-11

  

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt: how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

 

Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackery

A Good Laugh is Sunshine in the House. ~William Makepeace Thackeray

 

After so much rain, we have enjoyed a couple of beautiful, clear days in Austin and it's amazing how such pleasant weather can complement a pleasant mood. We're crossing our fingers that this is the first of many sunny, warmer days to come…and that thought brings smiles and sunshine inside as well!!

 

Strobists:

AB800 camera front left 5ft on axis from Mer in PCB medium softbox @1/8

SB600 camera front left 4ft from and a little behind Mer in collapsed reflective umbrella 35mm @1/4

SB600 camera front left 7ft from from background (aimed at left your left side of the background) in interfit Grid 35mm @1/4

AB400 camera front left 3ft on perpendicular to Mer, but feathered more to the front of her in PCB beauty dish @1/4

1/200 @F/8

ISO 100

Nikkor 80-200mm 1:2.8

Triggered with Cybersync

 

see setup

Possibly the most famous pub tourist attraction in London. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese which according to "Camra London Pub Walks" guide "is an important survivor in the social history of the urban tavern". Many of the literature glitterarty of their day used this pub, including Samuel Johnson, James Boswell and William Makepeace Thackeray to name just three. I also think that Charles Dickens went there - but then he turned up almost everywhere including Shrewsbury. A list of all of them is shown next to the door of the establishment.

Tim Makepeace is one of the artists who was represented in our Visitor Center exhibit. He created a new piece called "JWST vs QED" - which is also photorealistic charcoal and pastel like the others from the exhibit. You can see his other work on the online version of the exhibit: jwst.nasa.gov/jwstArt

 

About this piece, Tim says, "My latest work, “JWST vs. QED,” is about space, time, and light. It is a pastel and charcoal drawing of a close-up view of the new, and yet to be launched, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It depicts a part of the telescope's primary hexagonal gold-plated mirror, with an overlay of a graphic illustration of a Feynman Diagram. This particular diagram is a representation of quantum electrodynamics, that describes how an electron can emit a charge-carrying photon, and then that photon can be absorbed, slightly later in time, or slightly earlier, by another electron. In this particular diagram, the wiggly line represents the photon moving left to the right, forward in space after being emitted from an electron. The photon is also moving down in this diagram, indicating that it can travel back in time. Effectively, the photon is absorbed by one electron before it was emitted from the other electron, seemingly violating laws of physics and running time backwards. This is a difficult aspect of quantum physics that uses retrocausality and quantum entanglement to explain the phenomena. This theory attempts to show that space and time are effectively interchangeable and are facets of the same thing, depending on ones relative point of view.

 

The James Webb Telescope can also be seen as a time-machine of sorts; the more distant the objects it images, the further back in time it sees. This is possible because the light emitted by distant objects takes time to reach our eyes. So, what we see has already happened sometime in the past.

 

The challenge I set for this artwork, was to juxtapose a rendering of the JWST, with its large light reflecting mirror (and its ability to see back in time), with a diagram describing quantum particles and the fluidity of time and our perception of light — the large and the small, the classic and the quantum, and the mutability of time."

  

If you create art inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope, share it with us! For terms and more information, please visit: www.nasa.gov/jwstart

 

Image credit: Tim Makepeace

 

Richard Coeur de Lion is a Grade II listed equestrian statue of the 12th-century English monarch Richard I, also known as Richard the Lionheart, who reigned from 1189 to 1199. It stands on a granite pedestal in Old Palace Yard outside the Palace of Westminster in London, facing south towards the entrance to the House of Lords. It was created by Baron Carlo Marochetti, an Italian sculptor whose works were popular with European royalty and the nobility, though often less well regarded by critics and the artistic establishment. The statue was first produced in clay and displayed at The Great Exhibition in 1851, where it was located outside the west entrance to the Crystal Palace. It was well received at the time and two years later Queen Victoria and Prince Albert headed a list of illustrious subscribers to a fund that aimed to raise money for the casting of the statue in bronze.

 

Although the money was duly raised and the bronze cast of the statue was finally completed in 1856, a lengthy dispute delayed its installation for several years. The original idea had been to erect the statue as a memorial to the Great Exhibition. This prompted opposition, as did proposals to place it outside Charles Barry's newly completed Palace of Westminster. Various other locations to display the statue were initially considered before agreement was reached that it would be placed in Old Palace Yard, Marochetti's preferred location. It was installed in October 1860, though it was not until March 1867 that it was finally completed with the addition of bronze bas-reliefs on either side of the pedestal.

 

The quality of the statue's workmanship caused problems during its first half-century; the horse's tail fell off the day after it was installed at the Great Exhibition, and forty years after its installation it was discovered to be riddled with holes and to have never been properly attached to its pedestal. It narrowly escaped destruction during the Second World War when a German bomb dropped during the Blitz landed a few metres away and peppered it with shrapnel. The pedestal and the horse's tail were damaged and Richard's sword was bent by the blast. In 2009, the Parliamentary authorities undertook a project to conserve and restore the statue.

 

Description

The statue was created by Baron Carlo Marochetti and is located in Old Palace Yard outside the Palace of Westminster, opposite Westminster Abbey in London.[1] With its pedestal, it stands 9 metres (30 ft) high, showing King Richard I on horseback. The king is depicted wearing a crowned helmet and a chainmail shirt with a surcoat, and lifting a sword into the air. The horse paws the ground, as if preparing for a charge into battle. Marochetti described his work as being inspired by Richard I rather than accurately depicting a 12th-century knight.

 

It stands on a granite pedestal also designed by Marochetti and made by Freeman & Co. of Penryn, Cornwall. Bas-relief panels showing Crusaders fighting the Saracens at the Battle of Ascalon and Richard on his deathbed pardoning Bertran de Gourdon, the archer who fatally shot him in 1199, were added to the east and west sides of the pedestal in 1866–67. As the statue cannot be accessed by the general public – the area around it is used as the House of Lords car park – the west-side scene showing Richard and Bertran is the only one visible from the street. According to Marochetti, the two bas-reliefs were designed in the style of Lorenzo Ghiberti's doors at the Florence Baptistry. Bronze letters on the front of the pedestal bear the inscription RICHARD I CŒUR DE LION / 1189–1199.

 

The great majority of the art in and around the Houses of Parliament is of British origin, due to a policy of acquiring British art for the building. Marochetti's statue thus represents one of the few examples of a non-British artist's work being selected for the Parliamentary estate.

 

History

Marochetti was born in Italy and was ennobled by the Kingdom of Sardinia but lived and worked in France, creating a number of prestigious works for the royalist French government in the 1830s. He made his name by creating equestrian statues; one, of the Duke of Wellington, was erected in Glasgow in 1840. By the 1840s, however, his popularity in continental Europe was in decline. The French Revolution of 1848, which saw the final overthrow of the French monarchy, prompted him to resettle in London and seek new patrons among the British elite.

 

Marochetti was not popular with the Victorian artistic establishment; Punch referred to him derisively as "Count Marrowfatty", while John Timbs wrote that he "owed more of his success in life to royal and noble patrons than artistic merit." It was certainly true that he benefited from the patronage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. His courtly manners impressed Victoria on their first meeting in 1849, and soon afterwards he became involved with the Prince Consort's plans for what became The Great Exhibition of 1851. Several countries planned to display sculptures of romantic historical figures in their contributions to the exhibition. The genre was common in mainland Europe but relatively rare in England at the time. Marochetti was probably aware that the Belgian sculptor Eugène Simonis intended to show his statue of Godfrey de Bouillon, the leader of the First Crusade, which King Leopold I of Belgium had commissioned. The two men had a number of connections; they shared the same bronze founder, Soyer of Paris, and Simonis was influenced by Marochetti's earlier acclaimed statue of the Duke of Savoy, Emanuele Filiberto. The Italian sculptor was probably motivated by a sense of competition with the Belgian in designing his Richard I.

 

Marochetti's creation of the clay model of the statue involved not only the sculptor himself but also the painter Victor Mottez, King Louis Philippe's personal physician Henri Gueneau de Mussy and the singers Mario and Garcia, all of whom contributed manual input. A clay model of the statue was displayed as one of two statues positioned outside the western entrance of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. Unfortunately it was so poorly assembled that shortly after the opening of the exhibition on 1 May 1851, the horse's tail fell off. It was repaired and the statue eventually attracted critical acclaim. The art critic John Ruskin said of the model, "it will tend more to educate the public with respect to art than anything we have done for centuries". It came to be regarded as one of the more popular items in the exhibition and Prince Albert personally took King Leopold to see it and the statue by Simonis, which now stands in the Grand-Place of Brussels. The Art Journal was later to describe it as "unquestionably a vigorous and spirited example of the bravura class of sculpture."

 

Casting and dispute over location

Richard's chainmail shirt was criticised as being unrealistic

Major General Charles Richard Fox proposed during the exhibition that a bronze cast should be made of the statue to serve as a memorial to the exhibition, marking one end of the site of the Crystal Palace with a statue of Prince Albert at the other end. A campaign got underway two years later, in May 1853, with a variety of the great and the good signing a brochure promoting a scheme to erect the statue somewhere in London. Its supporters included the Duke of Sutherland, Lord Lansdowne, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the sculptor John Henry Foley, the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, the ceramic manufacturer William Taylor Copeland and the Conservative MP (and future Prime Minister) Benjamin Disraeli. The Times was strongly in favour of the project due to the influence of its foreign affairs reporter Henry Reeve, who had known Marochetti since as early as 1839. The Royal Family also let it be known that they were supporters, with Queen Victoria donating £200 and Prince Albert £100.

 

The future location of the statue was a contentious issue from the outset, with Fox's proposal of a site in Hyde Park being sidelined in favour of leaving the site open for future consideration. The appropriateness of its theme in relation to the Great Exhibition was also questioned. The Art Journal pointed out the contradiction between "the effigy of a valiant crusader" and "the great Peace congress of 1851" and asked why "a foreign sculptor alone" was being selected to commemorate a British exhibition. The Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Challis, was similarly critical, declaring that the statue depicted "muscular power and the almost savage ferocity of war ..., while ... the Great Exhibition afforded an example of the cordial amity of nations." His criticism was perhaps not unrelated to the fact that he was promoting a rival scheme to commemorate the Exhibition. Others criticised the statue's lack of realism. As The Times observed after the statue's installation, the sculptor "sacrificed probabilities in the close fit he has given to Richard's mail shirt, which is made to display the swelling biceps and folded mass of pectoral muscle as accurately as a knitted woollen jersey."

 

Despite the criticism, £5,000 (equivalent to £538,000 today) was raised by private donations for a bronze version to be created. Parliament subsequently agreed to contribute £1,650 for the pedestal and a further £1,500 for two bas-reliefs to be installed on its sides. In 1854 a plaster version was placed in New Palace Yard facing west outside Westminster Hall, but Charles Barry, the architect of the palace, was opposed to its placement there. The Art Journal criticised the New Palace Yard location on the grounds that the statue was merely a novelty and, worse, depicted an unworthy subject – "a disobedient son and a bad governor". It also suffered from being lost against the architectural details of the Palace of Westminster. By early May 1854, the plaster statue had been removed.

 

In 1856, Marochetti had the statue cast in bronze at the workshop that he had established in the early 1850s in Sydney Mews, off Fulham Road. The casting and the statue's gifting to the nation in the summer of 1856 made the question of its location all the more essential to resolve. Other sites were considered, including outside Buckingham Palace, Carlton Gardens near the Horse Guards and even on top of Marble Arch. Prince Albert himself suggested locating it outside the west entrance of Westminster Abbey, looking down the newly created Victoria Street. Punch mocked the ongoing search for a location in an August 1857 issue, calling Richard I "the Wandering Statue of London". The anonymous writer asked whether "no-one [will] find standing-room for this fugitive king? Is there no spot, no royal mews, no academic stable where his over-driven steed can be taken in to bait?"

 

Marochetti proposed to install it in Old Palace Yard outside the south window of Westminster Hall. His idea was considered by the Fine Arts Commission for the Palace of Westminster and was deemed acceptable, although Sir Charles Barry again opposed it. His reasoning was that Old Palace Yard was "too limited in area, and too irregular and unsymmetrical in its form and approaches, to give due effect to it, as a work of art ..." For his part, Marochetti positively preferred the location's irregularity to the symmetry of a formally laid-out square. The dispute continued until 1859 when the Commissioner of Works, Lord John Manners, finally agreed to install the statue in Marochetti's favoured location. By this time Sir Charles Barry was seriously ill (and died on 12 May 1860) so was no longer in a position to offer opposition.

 

Installation and subsequent history

Parliament voted to fund a pedestal for the statue, carved from Cornish granite, but transportation delays meant that it was not until 26 October 1860 that the statue was placed on its pedestal and unveiled to the public. It was completely undecorated at first but a bronze shield was placed on the front end of the pedestal shortly after the installation. The Times (probably its pro-Marochetti reporter Henry Reeve) declared that with the installation of the statue "a great reproach had been removed from London", which now finally had a great equestrian monument which displayed a "combination of life and picturesqueness". It claimed that Marochetti's Richard I ranked "with the few great statues of that class in Europe". Not all critics were as fulsome; the British critic and poet Francis Turner Palgrave castigated it as "an essentially vulgar and low-class work precisely on the grounds that call forth the wonder of uncultivated spectators." It was said to have been particularly appreciated by London's cabbies, who tethered their horses nearby.

 

Marochetti also intended to add bas-reliefs to either side of the pedestal and had provisioned it with "sunk panels" ready for the reliefs to be installed. He proposed to create four "alto relievos in the style of the Ghiberti doors on the Battisterio at Florence", depicting the coronation of Richard in Westminster Abbey, the taking of Ascalon, Richard as a prisoner of the Saracens and Richard on his deathbed. He quoted £2,500 for all four, but Parliament voted instead to grant him £1,500 for two scenes – Ascalon and the death of Richard.

 

Marochetti accepted the commission and created plaster models of the reliefs. He installed one of the models in his château in France, where it remains today, while the other was set into the wall of a gardener's cottage adjoining his French estate. The bronze relief of the deathbed scene was added to the pedestal in August 1866, while the Taking of Ascalon was installed in March 1867. The Art Journal criticised the deathbed scene as being excessively stretched lengthways and noted similarities with a painting displayed in the Houses of Parliament, created by John Cross, that depicted the same subject.

 

Marochetti also pursued an abortive project to install a second giant equestrian statue in Old Palace Yard, this time portraying Edward, the Black Prince. He envisaged the two statues facing each other on either side of the entrance to the House of Lords. Although the scheme was reported in several journals, including the Illustrated London News, the Art Journal and the Athenaeum, and was strongly criticised for its perceived thematic inappropriateness, nothing came of it. Three different versions of the model for Marochetti's Black Prince came to light at the turn of the 21st century. They appear to have been designed at the same time as his Richard I, demonstrating their common origins; models of the two statues almost certainly would have co-existed in his workshop and Marochetti probably intended to seek a commission from Prince Albert. However, the death of the Prince Consort in 1861 deprived him of his most influential patron, and Marochetti's own death was to follow in 1867. Queen Victoria purchased one of Marochetti's statuette versions of the Black Prince following the sculptor's death and gave it to her son Edward, Prince of Wales. It is still part of the Royal Collection.

 

The statue has required repair work on several occasions to fix damage and defects. Only a few months after it was installed, it was reported to be oscillating in strong gusts of wind. Marochetti pronounced it sound but promised to strengthen the legs if necessary. During the winter of 1908–09, frost damaged one of the forelegs of the horse part of the statue. It was found that between 60 and 80 leaks were letting water into the interior of the statue and causing further damage when it froze. It was also discovered that the statue had never been properly attached to the pedestal but was merely resting under its own weight on the two ends of its base. Repair work took place to remedy these problems.

 

The statue was damaged during the Second World War when a large German bomb hit Old Palace Yard on 26 September 1940, during the Blitz. The bomb exploded only a few metres away from the statue and reportedly lifted it bodily off the ground. The upper part of the sword was bent and the tail of the horse suffered several holes from pieces of shrapnel. Vincent Massey, the High Commissioner for Canada, argued that the sword should be left unrepaired, as it symbolised "the strength of democracy which will bend but not break under attack." The sword was replaced in 1947, and other repair work was also done. However, damage to the pedestal can still be seen. The statue received Grade II listed status in February 1970.

 

In the summer of 2009, the Parliamentary authorities undertook a three-week conservation project to repair and restore the statue. It consisted of removing accumulated dirt and an old coating of black wax, repatinating the bronze surface to return it to its original colour and treating it with a clear wax as protection from pollution and the elements. The bas reliefs on the pedestal were also cleaned and treated, as was the pedestal itself.

 

Baron Pietro Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti RA (14 January 1805 – 29 December 1867) was an Italian-born French sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Britain. He completed many public sculptures, often in a neo-classical style, plus reliefs, memorials and large equestrian monuments in bronze and marble. In 1848, Marochetti settled in England, where he received commissions from Queen Victoria. Marochetti received great recognition during his lifetime, being made a baron in Italy and was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government.

 

Biography

Early life

Carlo Marochetti was born in Turin, where his father, Vincenzo, a former priest, was a local government official and professor of eloquence at Turin University, but after the family moved to Paris, Carlo was brought up as a French citizen. He studied at the Lycée Napoléon and then studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where his teachers were François Joseph Bosio and Antoine-Jean Gros. At the Paris Salon in 1827 he exhibited a marble statue of A Young Girl playing with a Dog which won a silver medal. Between 1822 and 1830 Marochetti frequently spent long periods in Rome where his mother was resident and where he collaborated with François-Joseph Duret and Antoine Étex and worked briefly at the studio of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

 

Career in France

From 1832 to 1848 Marochetti lived in Paris and largely adopted a neo-classical Romantic style of sculpture. He married Camille de Maussion in 1835 and together they had two sons and a daughter. In Paris, Marochetti received two significant commissions. One was for a relief panel of the Battle of Jemappes on the Arc de Triomphe and the other for a large marble statue group, the Elevation of Mary Magdalene for the altar of the Church of La Madeleine. He delayed completing the altar group to create a monumental equestrian statue of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy which he donated to the city of Turin. The king of Sardinia, Charles Albert rewarded Marochetti for his gift by making him a baron. Before being sent to Italy the Philibert statue was displayed in the courtyard of the Louvre Palace during 1838. This effectively established Marochetti's reputation for creating equestrian monuments and led to him being commissioned to create such a statue of Ferdinand, Duke of Orleans, which stood in the courtyard of the Louvre for four years. In 1839 the French government awarded him the Legion of Honour. During 1840 Marochetti was competing to win both the commission for a monument to the Duke of Wellington for the city of Glasgow and for the commission to design the tomb of Napoleon for Les Invalides in Paris. Although he won the Glasgow commission, Marochetti's proposal for the tomb attracted widespread public criticism in France and was rejected.

 

When his father died, Marochetti inherited the family château at Vaux-sur-Seine outside of Paris and served as mayor of the town there from 1846. After the fall of the July Monarchy in 1848, and his subsequent failure to win a seat in the National Assembly, Marochetti followed the French king Louis-Philippe into exile in the United Kingdom.

 

Career in London

Marochetti spent the greater part of his time from 1848 until his death, in London. He lived on Onslow Square, and maintained a large studio and his own foundry in the adjacent Sydney Mews. In his studio, Marochetti created an equestrian statue, in plaster, of Richard Coeur de Lion which was displayed at the Great Exhibition during 1851. A public campaign led to a bronze copy being made which was eventually, in 1860, erected in front of the Palace of Westminster on the orders of Prince Albert.

 

From his studio and foundry Marochetti, and his workforce, produced numerous statues, memorials and equestrian monuments plus smaller pieces. He also experimented with the use of new materials and the creation of multi-coloured, or polychromic, sculptures. Between 1853 and 1855 Marochetti created three life-size statues, plus busts and garden ornaments, for the Kingston Lacy country mansion in Dorset. His equestrian statues included those of Viscount Combermere in Chester and Sir Mark Cubbon in Bangalore and for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Glasgow. Works featuring mourning angels by Marochetti include the monument in St. Paul's Cathedral to Viscounts William and Frederick Melbourne, the Crimean War memorial at the Haydarpaşa Cemetery in Istanbul, dating from 1856 to 1858, and his Angel of the Resurrection for the Cawnpore memorial in India from 1862 to 1865. From 1864 Marochetti collaborated with Sir Edwin Landseer on the four bronze lions to be placed at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, and cast them at his Sydney Mews foundry. He experimented in using coloured marble following the work of John Gibson and a coloured statuette of Queen Victoria was exhibited at a London studio but is now lost.

 

Not all of Marochetti's designs were so successful. His proposed design for the tomb of the Duke of Wellington was rejected. Marochetti's equestrian monument to George Washington for the 1853 World Fair in New York was destroyed by fire. In the 1860s he championed a scheme for a set of statues celebrating British engineers to be erected in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Westminster. The scheme was rejected but three of the statues, of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and Joseph Locke were erected separately elsewhere. His monumental statue of Robert Peel in Parliament Square was melted down and the metal used for the smaller model of Peel by Matthew Noble which replaced it.

 

With the support of the exiled Louis-Philippe of France, Marochetti first met Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1849 and subsequently received a number of royal commissions. Marochetti's first royal commission in England was for a marble portrait bust of Prince Albert in 1849, which was commercially reproduced in Parian ware by the Mintons company in 1862. That year Queen Victoria commissioned Marochetti to produce a portrait bust of herself as a birthday gift for Prince Albert and that too was reproduced by Mintons for the retail market. Rather than a crown, he depicted her wearing a headpiece of various flowers, including roses and shamrocks, to represent the nations of the United Kingdom.

 

Marochetti designed Victoria's memorial to Princess Elizabeth and a bust of Prince Albert at Newport Minster on the Isle of Wight. He also created the marble recumbent effigies for the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore in Windsor Great Park. He was commissioned to make the seated figure of Albert for the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens. However the first version was rejected by the architect of the monument, Sir George Gilbert Scott, and Marochetti died before a satisfactory second version could be completed. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy 1861 and a full academician in 1866.

 

Marochetti died, suddenly, at Passy in Paris and was buried at the Vaux-sur-Seine cemetery.

William Makepeace Thackeray : Le livre des snobs

( The Book of Snobs )

traduit par Raymond Las Vergnas

Présenté par Claude Elsen

Illustré par Sempé

Le livre club du libraire - Paris, 1963

Maquettes de Claude Soalhat et mise en pages de Catherine du Vivier

 

My nephew's wife, Julia, with her baby Julian. First time mom...a new journey for the parents.

 

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray

  

Lady Harriet decided to pose in Dempsey graduation uniform ...

Why are you in that catsuit?

 

Erm, you can talk...

Seriously -- so much stuff we had to load up the display table multiple times.

 

The doorstop-alarm was from a dead friend, and our living friend of hers gave it to us for free. Good for keeping people out of rooms during parties.

 

The DiscoBeams sunflower LED light is awesome -- it's a fancy $30 American version of the $6-$10 Chinese ones we buy, and has more lights and a better-built body, so we were quite willing to pay $4.

 

It was a really good haul this week. A guy had sooooooo much comic book stuff that he was giving away for free because he didn't want to take it back inside.

 

We accidentally ended up at an estate sale for a dead friend. That was kind of dark.

 

We saw a yard setting up a bunch of chairs and we were wondering what that was about. Turns out, it's a Burner Peace Love & Ice Cream yearly party where they play music and have about 70 of their friends over. We didn't know the people there, but they knew of MakePeace Manor.

 

Spanker Drive is a funny name for a street.

 

boombox, doorstop, electric fly swatter, kit box, lamp, lava lamp, party light, surge protector, water filter.

 

upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

 

June 3, 2017.

  

... Read my blog at ClintJCL at wordpress.com

... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL at wordpress.com

 

... Read my yard sale-related blogposts at clintjcl dot wordpress dot com/category/yard-sales/

  

BACKSTORY: Got up around 6:35AM, made it out driving by 7:39 AM and went out until 1:28, and then again from 2:07 to 2:36 for a total of ~6 hours. Spent $143.15 plus ~$5.53 gas for 64.3 miles of driving (25.8 mpg @ $2.22/G), for a total cost of $148.68. We drove to 65 yard sales, stopping at 39 (60%) of them. We made 115 purchases (150 items) for a total estimated value of $1,400.57, leading to a profit/savings of $245.74. So in essence, we multiplied our $148.68 investment by 9.58. (Also, if you think about it, the profit counts for even more when you consider that we have to earn $1,400.57 on the job, pre-tax, in order to take home the $1,228.72 in cash that we saved. How long does $ of disposable income take to earn, vs the 6 hrs we spent here?). Anyway, this works out to a *post-tax* "wage" of $245.74/hr as a couple or $122.87/hr per person.

  

THE TAKE:

 

* $30.00: outdoor heater (EV:$99.98)

 

* $15.00: cymbals, 14" hi hat, Pearl CX300, (EV:$9.99), 18" crash/ride, Pearl CX300 (EV:$24.99)

 

* $12.00: tote bag of assorted body washes. Tote bag has 6 divisions 10x10x7.625", Suave cocoa butter & shea 15 fl oz (2), St Ives Indulgent coconut milk 13.5 fl oz, Johnson's Body Care Forever fresh 20.3 fl oz (2), Olay Body age defying 23.6 fl oz, Yardley London English Lavender 12 fl oz., Olay moisturinse 15.2 fl oz, Old Spice body spray 3.75 oz, John Frieda Frizz-Ease hair serum 1.69 fl oz. (2), John Frieda Shine Shock leave-on perfecting glosser 2.4 oz, Escada Sentiment lotion 1.7 fl oz (2), TRESemme no frizz shine spray 4.25 fl oz. (EV:$15 if you get the stuff from the Dollar Store)

 

* $10.00: metal box, silver colored, Promaster, with shoulder strap, foam inside, 18x13.5x6 (EV:$21.99)

 

* $5.00: digital picture frame, Omnitech 15242-US, 13" screen, power supply: Accurian cat no 12-200 model DSA-15P-12 (EV:$11.27)

 

* $5.00: toy, mechanical construction digger, rideable and controllable (EV:$44.99)

 

* $4.00: shelves (2), blue, 31x11.5x12" (EV:$14.39)

 

* $4.00: party light, Discobeams, Spencers, 5x1.25" (EV:$29.99 price tag)

 

* $4.00: shelves, wire, white: 12x12x47.25", 5 shelves, green: 10.75x12x23.75" 8 4x2 shelves (EV:$17.99), but ours is not modular like this. They're just one unit.

 

* $3.00: horseshoes, molded PVC, Sportcraft Model 08017 (EV:$22.49)

 

* $3.00: lava lamp, silver, magenta lava (EV:$9.97)

 

* $3.00: power strip surge protector, 6-outlets, circuit breaker (EV:$3.24)

 

* $3.00: light, portable track light, model 1953, issue no bh-49 880, including flood lightbulb (EV:$19.99)

 

* $3.00: boom box, Sanyo, M7130K (EV:$14.95 price tag)

 

* $3.00: nails/screws (3), 3 boxes of assorted nails and screws (EV:$~6.00 (~$3 each))

 

* $2.50: costume, Playful Pirate, size M/L, barcode 023168251343 (EV:$27.99 price tag)

 

* $2.00: power strip, GE, 6-outlets, black, smaller than most (EV:$3.24)

 

* $2.00: power strip, 6-outlets, white (EV:$3.24)

 

* $2.00: lamp, clip, green, model # 30011-GRN, manufacture date: 200503 (EV:$7.97)

 

* $2.00: electronic fly swatter, yellow, item 62540, serial number 2215-36747 (EV:$9.99)

 

* $2.00: step stool, off-white, Rubbermaid, 12.5x15.5x9.5", LS-4200-P3-BISQU / barcode 071691224204 (EV:$11.96)

 

* $2.00: bathmat, for the tub, dark gray, 30.5x14.75" (EV:$8.98)

 

* $2.00: solar light, OnTel Ever Brite, As Seen On TV, 2016, EBMOPKG10116-CCC, barcode 735541008207 (EV:$6.00)

 

* $1.00: game, roleplaying game, Gamma World (EV:$39.99 price tag)

 

* $1.00: hula skirt, Aloha Hawaii Lei, Natural Raffia, Adult: 31" waist, 28" length, barcode 747448310307 (EV:$3.99)

 

* $1.00: extension cord, 6-feet, gray (EV:$4.29)

 

* $1.00: belt, black with small silver studs (EV:$15.00)

 

* $1.00:coasters, mirror (2), square, 4" (EV:$5.98 ($2.99 each))

 

* $1.00: horseshoes, foam, Aviva, only one stake with base (EV:$14.47)

 

* $1.00: hat, top hat, SuperGirl, Pink, plushy, with pink faux fur rim, Six Flags (EV:$8.00)

 

* $1.00: milk crate, brown, Borden Orlando (EV:$3.82)

 

* $1.00: milk crate, red, Shenandoah's Pride (EV:$3.82)

 

* $1.00: shelf, wood color (unpainted), 31x11.5x12" (EV:$14.39)

 

* $1.00: storage unit, white, 2-drawers, Itso, 14.625x14.625x15" (EV:$24.97)

 

* $1.00: toy, tank, camouflage, 11x6x5", Hasbro, 1998, United States, 5 SXT25507-HD USA, C001-D (EV:$27.90)

 

* $1.00: fitted sheet & 4 pillowcases, Queen size, burgundy color (EV:$14.35)

 

* $1.00: storage unit, drawer, cloth, green, 15.125x9x15.375" (EV:$3.20)

 

* $1.00: guitar, First Act Discovery, missing a string, 31.25" long, 14.125x10.250x2.250" body, red finish with orange flames, FG3087 (EV:$18.71)

 

* $1.00: toy guitar, flat plastic, red & black, Wowwee Paper Jamz Pro Series guitar, 2010, 6288, has USB and a phone jack? maybe that's for the separate amp. (EV:$29.65)

 

* $1.00: toy guitar, flat plastic, white, WowWee Paper Jamz Instant Rockstar, 2009, this one does not have the USB or phone jack hookups (EV:$29.65)

 

* $0.75: lightbulb, Sylvania Soft White 3-way lightbulb 30-70-100W (EV:$3.98)

 

* $0.50: Spongebob Squarepants, vibrating, Burger King, 2002, 4x3.25" not including cloth feet, 5x3.25" including feet (EV:$4.03)

 

* $0.50: mask, Batman, glasses style, McDonald's (EV:$1.29)

 

* $0.25: train whistle, wood, Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Summerton, CO (EV:$4.99)

 

* $0.25: gold twigs (EV:$6.99)

 

* $0.10: Slinky, plastic, rainbow, butterfly shape, 3" (EV:$21.64)

 

* $0.10: stirrer, Fusionbrands Stirstik, 2011, gray plastic paint-stirrer with purple rubbery coating, item # 8038-147, barcode 891078001590 (EV:$6.95)

 

* $0.10: Smurf, rubbery, Grumpy, big head, little body, 1.5x2", 2012, lafigb.vimps tech4kios.com onl4w257 Canada (EV:$1.00)

 

* $0.10: paint, orange, Krylon, Industrial Tough Coat, (EV:$1.99 price tag)

 

* $FREE: Mr. Beer home brewing kit, makes 2 gallons of beer, keg, bottles, mixing kit for Bewitched Amber Ale 2.86lbs that expired on 20150627 (EV:$29.99)

 

* $FREE: hat, Spider-Man, BabyGap, size S/M (EV:$29.95)

 

* $FREE: head massager, Crafted Imports, handle: 2.7x0.3", short arm: 5", long arm: 6.5", Walgreen, WIC#: 950094 2302030, barcode 049022918207 (EV:$1.99)

 

* $FREE: hat, Dare Devil/Punisher reversible (EV:$16.95)

 

* $FREE: hat, Star Wars, Darth Vader (EV:$8.54)

 

* $FREE: skull, metal, flat, tin, Terminator 2, T2 (EV:$6.75)

 

* $FREE: hat, Iron Man (EV:$7.98)

 

* $FREE: ice mold, 20 Sided Die, LootCrate Exclusive, ~3" (EV:$5.82)

 

* $FREE: window (2), mirrored, 22.75x32.625x.75" (EV:$12.59)

 

* $FREE: mirror (2), 24x30" and 18x24" (EV:$22.55)

 

* $FREE: toy rocket, Stomp Rocket JrGlow air powered rocket, The D&L Company, www.stomprocket.com, 2008, barcode 795516200050 (EV:$14.75)

 

* $FREE: poster, Star Wars 7 The Force Awakens, RP1401 Pick 40, shrinkwrapped, barcode 882663040148 (EV:$8.99)

 

* $FREE: poster, Marvel Heros, Reinders, shrinkwrapped, A30/234/18023 234 PP31736 130312 (EV:$5.47)

 

* $FREE: poster, Star Trek Into Darkness, Imax (EV:$17.99)

 

* $FREE: drum, First Act Discovery, blue, 8.5" (EV:$25.65)

 

* $FREE: viewfinder, View-Master 3-D, blue, Fisher Price, 1988, T5410 0682T1, including viewmaster inserts: Dora The Explorer 2008 Viacom, The Space Shuttle B: 34079-9039, The Space Shuttle C: 34079-9029, Toy Story 3 T3982 (NRFB), Cars W2131 (NRFB) (EV:$12.97)

 

* $FREE: Brita filter pitcher, large size, white, top is a little warped (EV:$9.79)

 

* $FREE: Brita filter (2) (EV:$11.98)

 

* $FREE: toy, magnetized Spider-Man gyro spinner (EV:$3.98)

 

* $FREE: tin, butter cookies, 5.125x2.75", Christmas (EV:$7.56)

 

* $FREE: container, plastic, clear with white lid, 2.5x2.125x1.5"(EV:$0.27)

 

* $FREE: trading cards, Marvel Iron Man 3 movie, www.upperdeck.com, KA040913, barcode 053334807784 (still in pack) (EV:$2.86)

 

* $FREE: stickers, Tetris, 147 stickers, Paladone, PP2274TT, barcode 5032331036156 (NRFB) (EV:$4.90)

 

* $FREE: baby mirror, Munchkin, gray suede edges, 12.25x9.375" (EV:$7.99)

 

* $FREE: bucket, pink with hearts, 1-800-Flowers.Com, 4.25x5" (EV:$3.64)

 

* $FREE: carpet pad, gray 26x13.5", 24.5x13.5" (EV:$3.56)

 

* $FREE: poster, Beyond, 11x17" (EV:$7.95)

 

* $FREE: door stop alarm, Radio Shack, 490-0427, barcode 040293167707 (EV:$10.91). Got from Lynn, from BlondeJamesBond's estate sale.

 

* $FREE: toy, Iron Man, Hasbro, 2012, 7 moveable joints, 5"4.875", #A4180 (EV:$11.96)

 

* $FREE: toy, Snoopy & Woodstock,The Peanuts Movie, McDonald's, #10 (NRFB) (EV:$4.17)

 

* $FREE: toy, Mario Brothers, Luigi, 2013, McDonald's, 3.5x2.5" (EV:$17.25)

 

* $FREE: toy, Mario Brothers, Mario with wall, 2013, McDonald's, 3.5x2.5" (EV:$17.83). Ours is missing the coin and stand.

 

* $FREE: toy, candy fan, M&M's Star Wars, Boba Fett (EV:$3.09)

 

* $FREE: napkins, The Amazing Spider-Man, Decorata Party, 2051101, barcode 5201184804711 (NRFB) (EV:$2.02)

 

* $FREE: fork, construction vehicle, Constructive Eating, Fork Lift Fork (EV:$7.50)

 

* $FREE: spoon, construction vehicle, Constructive Eating, Front Loader Spoon (EV:$7.10)

 

* $FREE: toy, Avengers, Iron Man, Tri-Power Repulsor and 4 missiles, PN 7221430001(EV:$37.15)

 

* $FREE: ice cube tray, Marvel, The Thing's face, Hulk's fist, Captain America's shield, Iron Man's face, item #09922, barcode 674449099224 (EV:$7.43)

 

* $FREE: toy, Marvel Spider-Man Adventures, Playskool Heroes, Spider-Man & Lizard (NRFB) (EV:$12.42)

 

* $FREE: stickers, cars, 13 stickers (EV:$1.64)

 

* $FREE: dishwasher cages (4), 2 white: 9x6.5x5" and do not have a middle insert, 2 white with blue insert: 9x5.5x4.5" (EV:$23.96 ($5.99 each))

 

* $FREE: poster, Star Trek Beyond (EV:$13.35)

 

* $FREE: figure, The Fifth Element, Korben Dallas, Reaction Figures, 2015, 3.75", 5 moveable joints (EV:$7.49). We have the figure and the backing to the package.

 

* $FREE: figure, The Fifth Element, Leeloo (straps costume), Reaction Figures, 2015, 3.75", 5 moveable joints (NRFB) (EV:$7.95)

 

* $FREE: note book, Comic Note Book, 64 pages, barcode 81422904479 (NRFB) (EV:$3.39)

 

* $FREE: canvas (2), Spider-Man, Spider Sense, Canvas Art, 9.75" (shrinkwrapped) (EV:$20.42 ($10.21 each))

 

* $FREE: ball, bouncy, The Hulk, Headstrom, A1355, ~4.5" (EV:$6.99)

 

* $FREE: puzzle, Thomas & Friends, Ravensburger, 3x2' (EV:$8.97)

 

* $FREE: trivia box, Star Wars, Cardinal,60401ary, code LIV-STW, SKU: 118-2686, barcode 047754188028(EV:$2.59)

 

* $FREE: metal tin, mailbox shaped, Avengers Tin Mail Box (EV:$2.97 price tag)

 

* $FREE: toy, Iron Man, beanbag hands, 5.5x8 (EV:$7.12)

 

* $FREE: toy (2), Peanuts, Charlie Brown, 2015, McDonald's, talking, 4x2.25" (EV:$$7.48 ($3.74 each))

 

* $FREE: canvas (1), Spider-Man, Spider Sense, 15.75x11.625" (EV:$8.48)

 

* $FREE: place mat, Spider-Man, Spider Sense, 17x13.5", 3-D effect(EV:$4.15)

 

* $FREE: place mats (2), Avengers, 17.75x12" (EV:$5.67)

 

* $FREE: giant sticker activity pad, Marvel, 18602, 19x14" (EV:$12.95)

 

* $FREE: candle, red, American Greetings, (EV:$4.00 price tag)

 

* $FREE: toy, My Little Pony, Fluttershy, McDonald's, hard mane, real tail, 2.375x2.75" (EV:$4.24)

 

* $FREE: toothbrush, travel, blue (EV:$0.97)

 

* $FREE: trains, Thomas The Train, blue, wood and plastic, wheels (EV:$0.29)

 

* $FREE: toy, Darth Vader, 8 movable joints, waist twisting action, 4.25x2" (EV:$2.38). Ours is missing the light saber.

 

* $FREE: Pez dispenser, Superman, (EV:$2.99)

 

* $FREE: collectible metal pin, Marvel, Hydra symbal, EFX Collectibles (EV:$3.66)

 

* $FREE: candle, gray, Pacifica, Moroccan chamomile apple 3x6" (EV:$3.90)

 

* $FREE: action figure, Wolverine, 2.5", 4 movable joints (EV:$5.00). Ours is not exactly like this one.

 

* $FREE: Iron Man, Flying RC Extreme Hero, foam airplane, EB Brands, item number: mv7170im (EV:$19.99, but I'm going to only say $5.00 because ours is in bad shape and doesn't have the remote.)

Sunday photo club walk-about. I just couldn't get any lower....or closer.

The shot is taken from the wharf at the Lakeside Resort. Drew kindly posted an action shot of Barb (on the right) and me trying to get a lower angle.

If this was a shot in a bathing suit, I would not be so amused!!

It was a really good haul this week. A guy had sooooooo much comic book stuff that he was giving away for free because he didn't want to take it back inside.

 

We accidentally ended up at an estate sale for a dead friend. That was kind of dark.

 

We saw a yard setting up a bunch of chairs and we were wondering what that was about. Turns out, it's a Burner Peace Love & Ice Cream yearly party where they play music and have about 70 of their friends over. We didn't know the people there, but they knew of MakePeace Manor.

 

Spanker Drive is a funny name for a street.

 

Iron Man, Iron Man hat, Korben Dallas action figure, Leeloo action figure, Star Wars trivia, Superman hat, Venom hat, drum, guitar, hula skirt, ice Avengers tray, lamp, make your own beer beer kit, milk crates, nails, placemats, surge protector, train, water filter, wire shelves.

comics: Thomas And Friends. movie: Spider-Man. movie: movie: The Fifth Element.

 

upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

 

June 3, 2017.

  

... Read my blog at ClintJCL at wordpress.com

... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL at wordpress.com

 

... Read my yard sale-related blogposts at clintjcl dot wordpress dot com/category/yard-sales/

  

BACKSTORY: Got up around 6:35AM, made it out driving by 7:39 AM and went out until 1:28, and then again from 2:07 to 2:36 for a total of ~6 hours. Spent $143.15 plus ~$5.53 gas for 64.3 miles of driving (25.8 mpg @ $2.22/G), for a total cost of $148.68. We drove to 65 yard sales, stopping at 39 (60%) of them. We made 115 purchases (150 items) for a total estimated value of $1,400.57, leading to a profit/savings of $245.74. So in essence, we multiplied our $148.68 investment by 9.58. (Also, if you think about it, the profit counts for even more when you consider that we have to earn $1,400.57 on the job, pre-tax, in order to take home the $1,228.72 in cash that we saved. How long does $ of disposable income take to earn, vs the 6 hrs we spent here?). Anyway, this works out to a *post-tax* "wage" of $245.74/hr as a couple or $122.87/hr per person.

  

THE TAKE:

 

* $30.00: outdoor heater (EV:$99.98)

 

* $15.00: cymbals, 14" hi hat, Pearl CX300, (EV:$9.99), 18" crash/ride, Pearl CX300 (EV:$24.99)

 

* $12.00: tote bag of assorted body washes. Tote bag has 6 divisions 10x10x7.625", Suave cocoa butter & shea 15 fl oz (2), St Ives Indulgent coconut milk 13.5 fl oz, Johnson's Body Care Forever fresh 20.3 fl oz (2), Olay Body age defying 23.6 fl oz, Yardley London English Lavender 12 fl oz., Olay moisturinse 15.2 fl oz, Old Spice body spray 3.75 oz, John Frieda Frizz-Ease hair serum 1.69 fl oz. (2), John Frieda Shine Shock leave-on perfecting glosser 2.4 oz, Escada Sentiment lotion 1.7 fl oz (2), TRESemme no frizz shine spray 4.25 fl oz. (EV:$15 if you get the stuff from the Dollar Store)

 

* $10.00: metal box, silver colored, Promaster, with shoulder strap, foam inside, 18x13.5x6(EV:$21.99)

 

* $5.00: digital picture frame, Omnitech 15242-US, 13" screen, power supply: Accurian cat no 12-200 model DSA-15P-12 (EV:$11.27)

 

* $5.00: toy, mechanical construction digger, rideable and controllable (EV:$44.99)

 

* $4.00: shelves (2), blue, 31x11.5x12" (EV:$14.39)

 

* $4.00: party light, Discobeams, Spencers, 5x1.25" (EV:$29.99 price tag)

 

* $4.00: shelves, wire, white: 12x12x47.25", 5 shelves, green: 10.75x12x23.75" 8 4x2 shelves (EV:$17.99), but ours is not modular like this. They're just one unit.

 

* $3.00: horseshoes, molded PVC, Sportcraft Model 08017 (EV:$22.49)

 

* $3.00: lava lamp, silver, magenta lava (EV:$9.97)

 

* $3.00: power strip surge protector, 6-outlets, circuit breaker (EV:$3.24)

 

* $3.00: light, portable track light, model 1953, issue no bh-49 880, including flood lightbulb (EV:$19.99)

 

* $3.00: boom box, Sanyo, M7130K (EV:$14.95 price tag)

 

* $3.00: nails/screws (3), 3 boxes of assorted nails and screws (EV:$~6.00 (~$3 each))

 

* $2.50: costume, Playful Pirate, size M/L, barcode 023168251343 (EV:$27.99 price tag)

 

* $2.00: power strip, GE, 6-outlets, black, smaller than most (EV:$3.24)

 

* $2.00: power strip, 6-outlets, white (EV:$3.24)

 

* $2.00: lamp, clip, green, model # 30011-GRN, manufacture date: 200503 (EV:$7.97)

 

* $2.00: electronic fly swatter, yellow, item 62540, serial number 2215-36747 (EV:$9.99)

 

* $2.00: step stool, off-white, Rubbermaid, 12.5x15.5x9.5", LS-4200-P3-BISQU / barcode 071691224204 (EV:$11.96)

 

* $2.00: bathmat, for the tub, dark gray, 30.5x14.75" (EV:$8.98)

 

* $2.00: solar light, OnTel Ever Brite, As Seen On TV, 2016, EBMOPKG10116-CCC, barcode 735541008207 (EV:$6.00)

 

* $1.00: game, roleplaying game, Gamma World (EV:$39.99 price tag)

 

* $1.00: hula skirt, Aloha Hawaii Lei, Natural Raffia, Adult: 31" waist, 28" length, barcode 747448310307 (EV:$3.99)

 

* $1.00: extension cord, 6-feet, gray (EV:$4.29)

 

* $1.00: belt, black with small silver studs (EV:$15.00)

 

* $1.00: coasters, mirror (2), square, 4" (EV:$5.98 ($2.99 each))

 

* $1.00: horseshoes, foam, Aviva, only one stake with base (EV:$14.47)

 

* $1.00: hat, top hat, SuperGirl, Pink, plushy, with pink faux fur rim, Six Flags (EV:$8.00)

 

* $1.00: milk crate, brown, Borden Orlando (EV:$3.82)

 

* $1.00: milk crate, red, Shenandoah's Pride (EV:$3.82)

 

* $1.00: shelf, wood color (unpainted), 31x11.5x12" (EV:$14.39)

 

* $1.00: storage unit, white, 2-drawers, Itso, 14.625x14.625x15" (EV:$24.97)

 

* $1.00: toy, tank, camouflage, 11x6x5", Hasbro, 1998, United States, 5 SXT25507-HD USA, C001-D (EV:$27.90)

 

* $1.00: fitted sheet & 4 pillowcases, Queen size, burgundy color (EV:$14.35)

 

* $1.00: storage unit, drawer, cloth, green, 15.125x9x15.375" (EV:$3.20)

 

* $1.00: guitar, First Act Discovery, missing a string, 31.25" long, 14.125x10.250x2.250" body, red finish with orange flames, FG3087 (EV:$18.71)

 

* $1.00: toy guitar, flat plastic, red & black, Wowwee Paper Jamz Pro Series guitar, 2010, 6288, has USB and a phone jack? maybe that's for the separate amp. (EV:$29.65)

 

* $1.00: toy guitar, flat plastic, white, WowWee Paper Jamz Instant Rockstar, 2009, this one does not have the USB or phone jack hookups (EV:$29.65)

 

* $0.75: lightbulb, Sylvania Soft White 3-way lightbulb 30-70-100W (EV:$3.98)

 

* $0.50: Spongebob Squarepants, vibrating, Burger King, 2002, 4x3.25" not including cloth feet, 5x3.25" including feet (EV:$4.03)

 

* $0.50: mask, Batman, glasses style, McDonald's (EV:$1.29)

 

* $0.25: train whistle, wood, Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Summerton, CO (EV:$4.99)

 

* $0.25: gold twigs (EV:$6.99)

 

* $0.10: Slinky, plastic, rainbow, butterfly shape, 3" (EV:$21.64)

 

* $0.10: stirrer, Fusionbrands Stirstik, 2011, gray plastic paint-stirrer with purple rubbery coating, item # 8038-147, barcode 891078001590 (EV:$6.95)

 

* $0.10: Smurf, rubbery, Grumpy, big head, little body, 1.5x2", 2012, lafigb.vimps tech4kios.com onl4w257 Canada (EV:$1.00)

 

* $0.10: paint, orange, Krylon, Industrial Tough Coat, (EV:$1.99 price tag)

 

* $FREE: Mr. Beer home brewing kit, makes 2 gallons of beer, keg, bottles, mixing kit for Bewitched Amber Ale 2.86lbs that expired on 20150627 (EV:$29.99)

 

* $FREE: hat, Spider-Man, BabyGap, size S/M (EV:$29.95)

 

* $FREE: head massager, Crafted Imports, handle: 2.7x0.3", short arm: 5", long arm: 6.5", Walgreen, WIC#: 950094 2302030, barcode 049022918207 (EV:$1.99)

 

* $FREE: hat, Dare Devil/Punisher reversible (EV:$16.95)

 

* $FREE: hat, Star Wars, Darth Vader (EV:$8.54)

 

* $FREE: skull, metal, flat, tin, Terminator 2, T2 (EV:$6.75)

 

* $FREE: hat, Iron Man (EV:$7.98)

 

* $FREE: ice mold, 20 Sided Die, LootCrate Exclusive, ~3" (EV:$5.82)

 

* $FREE: window (2), mirrored, 22.75x32.625x.75" (EV:$12.59)

 

* $FREE: mirror (2), 24x30" and 18x24" (EV:$22.55)

 

* $FREE: toy rocket, Stomp Rocket JrGlow air powered rocket, The D&L Company, www.stomprocket.com, 2008, barcode 795516200050 (EV:$14.75)

 

* $FREE: poster, Star Wars 7 The Force Awakens, RP1401 Pick 40, shrinkwrapped, barcode 882663040148 (EV:$8.99)

 

* $FREE: poster, Marvel Heros, Reinders, shrinkwrapped, A30/234/18023 234 PP31736 130312 (EV:$5.47)

 

* $FREE: poster, Star Trek Into Darkness, Imax (EV:$17.99)

 

* $FREE: drum, First Act Discovery, blue, 8.5" (EV:$25.65)

 

* $FREE: viewfinder, View-Master 3-D, blue, Fisher Price, 1988, T5410 0682T1, including viewmaster inserts: Dora The Explorer 2008 Viacom, The Space Shuttle B: 34079-9039, The Space Shuttle C: 34079-9029, Toy Story 3 T3982 (NRFB), Cars W2131 (NRFB) (EV:$12.97)

 

* $FREE: Brita filter pitcher, large size, white, top is a little warped (EV:$9.79)

 

* $FREE: Brita filter (2) (EV:$11.98)

 

* $FREE: toy, magnetized Spider-Man gyro spinner (EV:$3.98)

 

* $FREE: tin, butter cookies, 5.125x2.75", Christmas (EV:$7.56)

 

* $FREE: container, plastic, clear with white lid, 2.5x2.125x1.5"(EV:$0.27)

 

* $FREE: trading cards, Marvel Iron Man 3 movie, www.upperdeck.com, KA040913, barcode 053334807784 (still in pack) (EV:$2.86)

 

* $FREE: stickers, Tetris, 147 stickers, Paladone, PP2274TT, barcode 5032331036156 (NRFB) (EV:$4.90)

 

* $FREE: baby mirror, Munchkin, gray suede edges, 12.25x9.375" (EV:$7.99)

 

* $FREE: bucket, pink with hearts, 1-800-Flowers.Com, 4.25x5" (EV:$3.64)

 

* $FREE: carpet pad, gray 26x13.5", 24.5x13.5" (EV:$3.56)

 

* $FREE: poster, Beyond, 11x17" (EV:$7.95)

 

* $FREE: door stop alarm, Radio Shack, 490-0427, barcode 040293167707 (EV:$10.91). Got from Lynn, from BlondeJamesBond's estate sale.

 

* $FREE: toy, Iron Man, Hasbro, 2012, 7 moveable joints, 5"4.875", #A4180 (EV:$11.96)

 

* $FREE: toy, Snoopy & Woodstock, The Peanuts Movie, McDonald's, #10 (NRFB) (EV:$4.17)

 

* $FREE: toy, Mario Brothers, Luigi, 2013, McDonald's, 3.5x2.5" (EV:$17.25)

 

* $FREE: toy, Mario Brothers, Mario with wall, 2013, McDonald's, 3.5x2.5" (EV:$17.83). Ours is missing the coin and stand.

 

* $FREE: toy, candy fan, M&M's Star Wars, Boba Fett (EV:$3.09)

 

* $FREE: napkins, The Amazing Spider-Man, Decorata Party, 2051101, barcode 5201184804711 (NRFB) (EV:$2.02)

 

* $FREE: fork, construction vehicle, Constructive Eating, Fork Lift Fork (EV:$7.50)

 

* $FREE: spoon, construction vehicle, Constructive Eating, Front Loader Spoon (EV:$7.10)

 

* $FREE: toy, Avengers, Iron Man, Tri-Power Repulsor and 4 missiles, PN 7221430001(EV:$37.15)

 

* $FREE: ice cube tray, Marvel, The Thing's face, Hulk's fist, Captain America's shield, Iron Man's face, item #09922, barcode 674449099224 (EV:$7.43)

 

* $FREE: toy, Marvel Spider-Man Adventures, Playskool Heroes, Spider-Man & Lizard (NRFB) (EV:$12.42)

 

* $FREE: stickers, cars, 13 stickers (EV:$1.64)

 

* $FREE: dishwasher cages (4), 2 white: 9x6.5x5" and do not have a middle insert, 2 white with blue insert: 9x5.5x4.5" (EV:$23.96 ($5.99 each))

 

* $FREE: poster, Star Trek Beyond (EV:$13.35)

 

* $FREE: figure, The Fifth Element, Korben Dallas, Reaction Figures, 2015, 3.75", 5 moveable joints (EV:$7.49). We have the figure and the backing to the package.

 

* $FREE: figure, The Fifth Element, Leeloo (straps costume), Reaction Figures, 2015, 3.75", 5 moveable joints (NRFB) (EV:$7.95)

 

* $FREE: note book, Comic Note Book, 64 pages, barcode 81422904479 (NRFB) (EV:$3.39)

 

* $FREE: canvas (2), Spider-Man, Spider Sense, Canvas Art, 9.75" (shrinkwrapped) (EV:$20.42 ($10.21 each))

 

* $FREE: ball, bouncy, The Hulk, Headstrom, A1355, ~4.5" (EV:$6.99)

 

* $FREE: puzzle,Thomas & Friends, Ravensburger, 3x2' (EV:$8.97)

 

* $FREE: trivia box, Star Wars, Cardinal, 60401ary, code LIV-STW, SKU: 118-2686, barcode 047754188028(EV:$2.59)

 

* $FREE: metal tin, mailbox shaped, Avengers Tin Mail Box (EV:$2.97 price tag)

 

* $FREE: toy, Iron Man, beanbag hands, 5.5x8 (EV:$7.12)

 

* $FREE: toy (2), Peanuts, Charlie Brown, 2015, McDonald's, talking, 4x2.25" (EV:$$7.48 ($3.74 each))

 

* $FREE: canvas (1), Spider-Man, Spider Sense, 15.75x11.625" (EV:$8.48)

 

* $FREE: place mat, Spider-Man, Spider Sense, 17x13.5", 3-D effect(EV:$4.15)

 

* $FREE: place mats (2), Avengers, 17.75x12" (EV:$5.67)

 

* $FREE: giant sticker activity pad, Marvel, 18602, 19x14" (EV:$12.95)

 

* $FREE: candle, red, American Greetings, (EV:$4.00 price tag)

 

* $FREE: toy, My Little Pony, Fluttershy, McDonald's, hard mane, real tail, 2.375x2.75" (EV:$4.24)

 

* $FREE: toothbrush, travel, blue (EV:$0.97)

 

* $FREE: trains, Thomas The Train, blue, wood and plastic, wheels (EV:$0.29)

 

* $FREE: toy, Darth Vader,8 movable joints, waist twisting action, 4.25x2" (EV:$2.38). Ours is missing the light saber.

 

* $FREE: Pez dispenser, Superman, (EV:$2.99)

 

* $FREE: collectible metal pin, Marvel, Hydra symbal, EFX Collectibles (EV:$3.66)

 

* $FREE: candle, gray, Pacifica, Moroccan chamomile apple 3x6" (EV:$3.90)

 

* $FREE: action figure, Wolverine, 2.5", 4 movable joints (EV:$5.00). Ours is not exactly like this one.

 

* $FREE: Iron Man, Flying RC Extreme Hero, foam airplane, EB Brands, item number: mv7170im (EV:$19.99, but I'm going to only say $5.00 because ours is in bad shape and doesn't have the remote.)

View of a private home and its front lawn. There are flowers planted in front of

the house and a car parked next to the house. The card is numbered 20634.

 

Digital Collection:

North Carolina Postcards

 

Publisher:

Asheville Post Card Co., Asheville, N.C.;

 

Date:

1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928;

1929; 1930

 

Location:

Sanford (N.C.); Lee County (N.C.);

 

Collection in Repository

Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077); collection guide available

online at www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/77barbour/77barbour.html

 

Usage Statement

1 2 ••• 5 6 8 10 11 ••• 79 80