Anyone collect antiques here?
I found this the other day while I was demolishing a small bedroom in the upstairs area of my friends house, it must've been thrown behind the walls while they were building it, it's 2 - 1/4" wide and 1 - 5/8" tall:
and a close up (as best I can get at the moment) of the date:
says copywrite 1931 incase its still tough to read
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lol, some old jimmy hats. and considering the era they were from, no wonder they were so well hidden. too bad the box is empty.
guess not for the person that used them lol
lol, some old jimmy hats. and considering the era they were from, no wonder they were so well hidden. too bad the box is empty.
guess not for the person that used them lol
that is so true especially back then
that would've been about 4 hours' worth of work just for a box of 12 condoms.
That's okay, so long as you only need them each for 20 minutes at a time, it's a fair trade
Wow...I didn't even know condoms were in existence in the early '30s. Though judging by the price (adjust that $1.50 for inflation and you get about $20 in 2008 dollars) and the era (that was the height of the Depression), that would've been about 4 hours' worth of work just for a box of 12 condoms.
COndoms have been in use for at least 400 years, although they didn't start being use by the masses until the early 1800's when they were marketed to the lower classes.
found something else last night, which may have been the lead up to the other thing I found:
Hay, I call fake. People didn't do dirty things like have sex in the 1930s, it was all sunshine and lollipops. People reproduced by magic alone.
I was always told back in those days, all they did was kiss and babies were made.
found this last night, it was buried in a corner under a pile of wood pieces
can't find any dates on the box, but its in pretty good shape for how old it is and where it was stored:
on the front it says: "Electric Wreath of Sparking Cellophane"
too bad the wreath wasn't inside
Wow...I didn't even know condoms were in existence in the early '30s. Though judging by the price (adjust that $1.50 for inflation and you get about $20 in 2008 dollars) and the era (that was the height of the Depression), that would've been about 4 hours' worth of work just for a box of 12 condoms.
That's about what you pay currently for a dozen non-latex condoms.
The earlier wreaths were made of a material called "chenile" and the later ones were cellophane. That box is most likely from the late 1940s or even the early '50s.
So to answer the topic question, yes, I do collect antiques, at least stuff related to Christmas lighting.