Antique mechanical dice
Dug North spotted this gem in a recent (and now unfortunately closed) eBay listing. Would love to hear what it sounds like when you pull the lever.
antiques
The Detailed Beauty in a Crazy Quilt
My mother-in-law has a stunning antique Crazy Quilt that hangs on the wall in her home. I was visiting there today, and I caught my self inching closer and closer to the quilt, in an attempt to discover all of it’s amazing details. The tiny flower embroidery is so charming. The discord is the one […]
Dental training mannequins
These impossibly creepy artifacts are dental training mannequins collected by Steve Erenberg of Radio Guy. Be warned, Steve’s site is chockablock with incredible medical, scientific, and industrial antiques he’s collected, mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a major click-trap.
Antique bottle collecting
Antique bottles have always fascinated me. Here’s an amazing site with pretty much everything you need to know about identifying and dating “historic bottles.” The site is maintained by the Bureau of Land Management. Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website More: More sea glass hunting The sea glass of summer HOW TO – Make […]
Lost Knowledge: Manual Typewriters
Typewriters are enjoying a comeback, as collectable antiques, and as a welcome relief from overwhelming digital distractions.
The ACCRC’s It Ain’t Dead Yet blog
MAKE Editor at Large David Pescovitz writes on Boing Boing: The Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) is a Berkeley, California-based non-profit group that recycles anything that you can plug into a power outlet. Massive tonnage of insanely strange circuitry goes in and out of that place on a daily basis. To share some of […]
