Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

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  1. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector


    Very cool!
     
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  3. TONYBRONX

    TONYBRONX Well-Known Member

    LACOINTESSA I LOVE THAT NAME. YOUR COLLECTION IS DOWN RIGHT BEAUTIFUL AND ALMOST SPIRITUAL! HOW DO YOU PHOTOGRAPH THEM SO BEAUTIFULLY??
    AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING! SMILES!
     
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  4. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

    @TONYBRONX - Thanks. My name just came to me when signing up here at CT. I had a dear friend who has departed long ago who we sometimes half-jokingly called "The Contessa" and perhaps that figured in a bit. May The Contessa rest in peace. (Amen). I just put the cards on black background and shot them. I am glad you can see them well. I am only just learning how to use the camera on my iPad.
     
  5. jamesicus

    jamesicus Well-Known Member

    Good tools helped a lot in building and repairing radios in the 1930s. I still have my tool sets:

    NORTH BROS. MFG. CO. "YANKEE" Radio Tool Sets


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    From early 1920's A. Weber Company Distributor catalog

    In the days of Radio's infancy - the 1920s and early 1930s - radio manufacture, rebuild and repair was very much the province of wood workers. The chassis for mounting components and the speaker cabinets were mostly made of wood. I used to assist my father, who was a great tinkerer, in repairing and modifying radios belonging to friends and relatives during the late 1930s and 1940s. I also built my own crystal radios.

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    1924 NORTH BROS. ADVERTISEMENT

    .......... and for work on electrical appliances, odd jobs, and general home maintenance.

    "YANKEE" Radio Tools were available in two sets: No. 105 packaged in the standard North Bros. pale green cardboard box with a descriptive yellow label and as No. 106, which consisted of the No. 105 Tool Set plus a No. 1431 Radio Hand Drill, in a fitted wooden chest (which in turn was in a standard North Bros. cardboard packing box). Both of these sets were listed by North Bros. in their tool catalogs from the mid 1920s until sometime in the late 1930s.
     
  6. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    Very cool.
     
  7. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

    Oh! I just adore tools! These are simply wonderful. Thank you for sharing them with us.
     
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  8. jamesicus

    jamesicus Well-Known Member

    The "YANKEE" N0. 105 Radio Tool Set consists of a No. 230 Ratchet Tool Holder plus a set of attachments and a special wrench in a standard North Bros.cardboard packing box. Although a bent wire sample was illustrated on the box exterior, it was not included in the tool set.

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    No. 105 Radio Tool Set with paper wrapped attachments in original factory box

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    No. 105 Radio Tool Set original factory box top label

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    No. 105 Radio Tool Set original factory box end label

    The "YANKEE" N0. 106 Radio Tool Set consists of a No. 105 Radio Tool Set plus a No. 1431 Radio Hand Drill fitted in a mahogany stained wooden chest contained within a standard North Bros. cardboard packing box.

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    The chest is made from straight grain soft wood - the exterior is stained mahogany per the catalog description - the interior is bare wood without any fabric covering.

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    This "YANKEE" Radio Tool Set No. 106 label is pretty much intact and in reasonably good condition.

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    The individual tool attachments are secured in a spring activated drilled out block in the chest lid and are extracted after elevating the block by pushing down on the left edge of it. The retaining blocks in the chest lid are glued in place. The special wrench is secured in the lid via a spring steel retainer. Each tool attachment is stamped "YANKEE" as is the wrench. The No. 1431 Radio Hand Drill and No. 230 Ratchet Tool Holder are snugly secured in place by wooden blocks which are in turn affixed to the chest floor by brads.

    I still own, and use, my "Yankee" No. 106 set (pictured above). They are of a quality you simply do not find these days.
     
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  9. jamesicus

    jamesicus Well-Known Member

    And the Ads from those days were also wonderful:

    The No. 105 and No. 106 Radio Tool sets were discontinued by Stanley Tools when they acquired North Bros. Mfg. Co. in 1946, but the No. 1431A hand drill was continued as a stand alone tool and was subsequently stamped with the Stanley name.

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    1925 NORTH BROS. ADVERTISEMENT
     
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  10. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    Heres an ad for the radio I posted
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  11. Jdiablo30

    Jdiablo30 Well-Known Member

    I fish for musky,if you know then you know,if not they are very elusive freshwater wolves I call them. Huge beasts appropriately nicknamed the fish of 10000 casts IMG_20170926_075023964_HDR.jpg
     
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  12. midas1

    midas1 Exalted Member

    The Yankee tools are amazing. I've never seen them in my area.
     
  13. midas1

    midas1 Exalted Member

    "She looks a bit bent and weathered. . . "

    Could be because she's been carrying that cross all these years. :)

    I believe Saint George was a Roman soldier.
    When I get time later this evening I'll check out it.

    I did not mean to slight you w/ my Google comment
    I was tired and wanted to go to bed and read a couple of chapters
    in The Templers book.
     
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  14. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

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    Need I say more?
     
  15. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

    LoLL about carrying the cross. We all have one to bear, they say!

    @midas1, I did not feel slighted about anything you wrote or suggested. I was thankful you showed interest in my tiny collection and that you took the time and energy to respond. Thanks again! I did not look for the saint soldier last night. Instead I went looking for the book you suggested and wound up reading about the young prolific author. Am trying to decide whether to get the electronic or the paper version. Not bad at under 15 clams.
     
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  16. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Artist & Historian Supporter

    Longinus the Centurion
     
  17. midas1

    midas1 Exalted Member

    "Need I say more?"
    nope.

    Good Luck LaCointessa. I bought my hardcover copy from Amazon for around $19.00 delivered. The local Barnes and Noble charged almost $30.00 including tax.
    Yep, he is a young prolific writer. In The Templars, he describes amazing feats performed by King Richard I. Going to read a Richard I biography next.
     
  18. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

    Yes, but...but.. @Deacon Ray...
    Oh, I see why Longinus the Centurion was considered a saint.
    http://antiochpatriarchate.org/en/page/longinus-the-centurion/1247/

    He doesn't seem to be the one pictured on my cards. Now I see I posted two prayer cards with Roman soldier saints. They look like different saints. I am going to go back to the link that @midas1 provided to me yesterday and see if I can identify those two and Google around some more. Also, it may be worthwhile before I do that, to go through my cards again and see if I have any other Roman soldier saints so I can hopefully identify them all at once. It would be great to have coins from when they lived to go along with the cards.

    I just love this coin stuff and history.

    Thank you Deacon!
     
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  19. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    I prefer my fish fat and happy in a tank.

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    And before some of you fish killers get any ideas about fishing my babies out of their tank, my other hobby is target practice at the rifle range. Here is my fish defender. Incidentally, I've won shooting competitions before, just in case you are wondering whether I can hit the side of a barn.


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  20. RAGNAROK

    RAGNAROK Naebody chaws me wi impunitY

    Lovely St. Patrick prayer-card :) (I don´t like snakes... :bag: ...like Indy Jones... :D)
     
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  21. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

    Actually, @Sallent, I have not been fishing since my friend from high school chastised me for tormenting and torturing fish. At least, he said, if you catch one, don't ever throw it back down there all injured and smelling of humans! Eat it if you are truly hungry and needing dead animal flesh for nutrients. But throwing a fish back is nothing but torturing the creature.

    I really had to think about that. And while I love to spend a day out on the water fishing (or even from a dock) I haven't been crazy trying to organize a fishing day or half day as I used to do.
     
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