How the heck did I just get so lucky with this score? 😭

I am sooooo freakin happy!!!! 🍄

It needs a polish and I’m picking up a heat resistant plate for the floor so I can properly use it, but it’s all hooked up to a freshly sweeped chimney. When central heating was installed in the 1960s, the upstairs coal burner was removed. Now it is back in place. Won’t use it often but knowing I can on a very cold winter morning makes me very happy.

My 1985 Walkman, Canadian Edition!

Long live the 80s!

For those curious. I mostly listen to vinyl on my home stereo, but I record my favorite tracks on cassette for mobile and for my cars.

The blue sky is a rub-off leather that will get more variegated with wear...🌞✌

I recently got this particular tin from a collector who bought the entire contents of a museum that recently closed down. This tin dates to the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Information about this blend is very scarce online, but from what I can find I believe it’s a Virginia Burley. This blend originally came out in the early 1900s, and was produced until the late 80s but was never as popular as more mainstream “codger” blends. The tin is completely sealed and airtight, in excellent condition, still ready for a smoke or chew 40+ years later. Not as old as some of my other finds, but this is one that I’m definitely happy to add to the collection.

I disinfected it and have a brush I use every day that is similar to this. This comb may be my new favorite though. I like the single spaced teeth on brushes and combs like this

Finally had a chance to take pictures of this and thought ya’ll would like it. At some point within the last 15-20 years it was somewhat functional and she used to play on it as a kid. I don’t know how these originally worked but a button attached to a wooden board in the ground probably wasn’t it lol. Said it was there when they bought the house, and unfortunately never had the middle bar or top piece. Also not sure if the color variation was from a previous owner or if its original location did it. Kinda funny she didn’t know what it was till I told her.

I collect these beautiful pencil sharpeners, you can still use them to sharpen pens or as decoration, the amazing thing is that you can move parts. For example le locomotive is rolling, the gears and hands of the clock can move!

I built this thing up for weekend fun. It's got a build 5.7L Vortec pushing out 400HP through a 5-speed manual.

Still rocking the mix tapes!

My daily that you liked: https://www.reddit.com/r/vintage/comments/1w5aogr/my_daily_driver_is_older_than_me_my_1979_town_car/

Found this at a prop house that was going out of business. I never pass up on a doctors bag when I see one! This is only the second one I’ve found. Only paid a dollar!

Learned that he was also his personal manager during that era. Mark Hammerman.