gravyboy2
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| 14 Apr 2020 07:50 PM |
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Great display trixon they look great in the outside setting , All the best Dave |
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PhoneGuy
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| 14 Apr 2020 08:03 PM |
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Thanks CARTERS, yea I get what you’re saying – its more practical that way.
factory boy, I think every time I spend time on something in the house that the next move could be around the corner. Also agree on the smaller signs as the big ones are nice but most likely end up staying stored away.
Trixon – I had to laugh out loud after reading your reply as you have summed me up perfectly! Over thinking is unfortunately my forte and one that’s hard to stop. The National Gallery and "The Death of Actaeon" was superb and brought some much needed light relief to my current worries. Cheers mate! (Also, your next pic of your outside signs is a very good layout and very pleasing to the eye!)
I really need to get to one of the next enamels fairs and meet some of you fine folks in the flesh when we next can. This is a great community of people and one I’m very glad to be part of.
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Lummox
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| 14 Apr 2020 11:25 PM |
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More great signs fella's
Dave love that framed WillS's GOLD FLAKE .... a truly SUPERB sign
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banjo boy
The Tatfather
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| 15 Apr 2020 01:37 PM |
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Ide be quite happy just to sit in that garden during this lock down..Great stuff.. |
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Lummox
The Tatfather
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| 16 Apr 2020 01:00 PM |
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A local sign to me, that came from a hoard of about 20 that were found overgrown and stacked behind an old hedge outside a defunct small North Downs dairy around 1980. Interestingley 3 appeared this year in a Dorking shop eagerly snapped up by a local Collector ( Not me !! ). Chatting to the shop owner about something else about 5 weeks ago, it transpired that the 3 signs had turned up in a long forgotten cellar from a house clearance he did on the North Downs, and which he thought that the house was once probably ........a small dairy !!
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factory boy
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| 16 Apr 2020 01:26 PM |
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Lovely sign Ross especially to me as I also collect cream pots, jugs and crocks. I have long admired this sign but have never had the chance to buy one which was not restored. The two stories you tell are both great. Fantastic discoveries. Its all a matter of being in the right place at the right time. The firm must have been quite large looking at all the awards inc Chicago! Certainly one of my all time favourite enamels. Imagine if the Bolesworth Dairy in Loughborough had produced an enamel showing the milk cart that's on their pots? We can only dream. |
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factory boy
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| 16 Apr 2020 01:33 PM |
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Marcus: I have to say that your collection of enamels is truly amazing. Looking at some of your walls reminds me of Chris & Andrew's Street Jewellery touring exhibition of the 1970s that acted as an inspiration to so many of us. Thanks for sharing your fantastic collection with us. Here's today's offering from my 'SMALL' collection.
FB
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Lummox
The Tatfather
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| 16 Apr 2020 04:26 PM |
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Hi Brian
Re the Guildford Dairy enamel . Hopefully someone will prove me wrong ...but I don't think many really good or minters exist. As I remember all from the original cache had some issues, many very edgy rust wise, and or faded.
One good example came in the 3 new to turn up ( he might put a pic up later HINT HINT ) and the others needed a bit of work
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banjo boy
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| 16 Apr 2020 04:53 PM |
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Great sign,great story Ross..Always fancied one and one of The Bibbys calf cream ones.. |
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gravyboy2
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| 16 Apr 2020 05:47 PM |
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I think you're spot on Ross about the West Surries took me a long time to get mine with a bit of work on it , I heard a rumour there is one good one but I doubt it if you could get one with a good clear label and not to bashed you're doing well . P.S. The Bibbys is a great sign BB on my shopping list to. All the best Dave |
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Lummox
The Tatfather
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Lummox
The Tatfather
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| 17 Apr 2020 01:51 PM |
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Hey TRIXIE .......................any news from Vito Corleone yet ?? |
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trixon telstar
Guru Tat
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| 17 Apr 2020 03:00 PM |
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It's "omerta " Ross I think , so we're two steps forward and three steps back ! |
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Lummox
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| 17 Apr 2020 06:51 PM |
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Hmmm. Trixie ......warn him I will out the " Trackies "
if that does'nt work ................................................................................................ |
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factory boy
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| 18 Apr 2020 08:09 AM |
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Anyone remember his first 'Trackies'... made by Admiral if I remember correctly. Great for jumping over hedges in allotments! |
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