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2678. uzmakk - 2/27/2005 5:31:47 PM I bought
this radio last fall and highly recommend it to anyone who is in the market for such a thing. Portable, rechargable battery, great sound, sensitive tuner. Among my excuses for the purchase was that I didn't have a radio to take camping.
2679. PelleNilsson - 2/27/2005 9:12:29 PM A 3.5 lbs contraption for camping? One assumes you hire carrier-wallahs for your expeditions.
Snowing in the east:
Snowing in the west:
And clearing up:
 2680. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 9:15:54 PM I was wondering if anybody knows about silver place settings. This is a set of six with the serving utensils shown:
I can't tell whether it is plate or solid silver. The fork has a pair of symbols, an equilateral triangle on one of its points followed by what looks like a carrot laid on its side followed by a sideways 4, "800",a sickle moon and then a crown. The manufacturer is Baden Pforzheim, and it is pretty certainly pre-WWII. The question is whether to sell the stuff or just give it to the local thrift store. 2681. PelleNilsson - 2/27/2005 9:24:10 PM Only the fork? 2682. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 9:31:23 PM Sorry, I got the order of the symbols wrong.
Sideways 4, "800", sickle moon, crown, carrot, triangle is the correct order. 2683. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 9:31:42 PM The fork has the largest number of symbols. 2684. SnowOwl - 2/27/2005 9:42:51 PM There's some information about hallmarks here:
German hallmarks.
The fact that it is hallmarked with the silver purity included suggest that it is solid. The crown and crescent appear on all German silver post 1884 - that's the State mark. 2685. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 10:09:40 PM Thanks SnowOwl. That link was very helpful. 2686. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 10:10:27 PM It seems that this stuff was actually manufactured by Bremer Silberwarenfabrik. The Baden Pforzheim was on one of the serving utensils, which may be a ringer. 2687. judithathome - 2/27/2005 10:19:24 PM Don't give it away, whatever you do. 2688. Ronski - 2/28/2005 12:42:17 AM Our house, a few days ago.
2689. Ronski - 2/28/2005 12:43:07 AM And more snow on the way. The groundhog called it right. 2690. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 12:22:48 PM Back from the hot New Zealand summer, I spent two and a half hours this morning getting the kids to school and myself to work. Usually takes me an hour, but I got stuck in three different places, and had to dig myself out of the snow with an aluminium frying pan.
I was pleased to have survived the 40-hour return journey pretty well, but now I'm exhausted.
I enjoy contrasts. Up to a point. 2691. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:40:24 PM With a frying pan?
Oh I'm laughing now. 2692. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:40:55 PM Was it your emergency frying pan by any chance? 2693. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 2:53:13 PM Still in a dream world somewhere between Over There and Over Here, I set out as normal this morning. Not totally oblivious : we left ten minutes early, taking account of the snow.
But foolishly set off the Usual Way, which starts off with a Bit of a Steep Hill (about 100 metres in a kilometre). There is not all that much snow, but I have underestimated the wind factor, which has created deepish drifts in exposed places.
So we got stuck at the sharp bend half way up. Not having put any specialised digging utensils in the car, I resort to the camping gear, hence the frying pan, which now has a rather jagged rim from scraping the snow off the road. 2694. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:55:25 PM So you're there, scraping snow off the road with a frying pan.
I wish someone had taken a picture. 2695. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 3:06:01 PM Tell you what, the work keeps you warm.
I didn't notice the minus nine or whatever.
And almost as much fun as making sandcastles. 2696. Macnas - 2/28/2005 3:19:53 PM I'd have gone home. 2697. jayackroyd - 2/28/2005 6:40:00 PM Just got back from a local auction house that has a weekly walk in appraisal session. I was very surprised at the number of people there. I expected one bored staffer dealing with a trickle of people. Instead, there were four appraisers and a couple of dozen people there.
The stuff was valued at between 300 and 500 dollars at auction, which is an irritating number--too much to give away, really, but not enough to warrant a lot of effort to deal with. Presumably a buyer planning to resell would pay considerably less, and finding an auction that would take the flatware would entail more hassle than I would like to engage in. The place I went to won't deal with such cheap stuff.
If you're in the US, though, you can see their paintings guy on that antique roadshow thing tonight. He's an acquaintance of mine, and I was surprised to see him on television during a visit to my father's house. Today he was appraising things for people who were looking for gold in granny's oils and watercolors. When I asked him whether he was still doing that, he said he'd be on tonight.
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