The Perfect Frame

[dime_novel_hero]

Some weeks ago, I was at a local mega-flea market and came across a seller that had a BB gun that looked like a Colt Peacemaker. He also had a pair of fencing foils. I had no particular use of a pair of fencing foils,m didn't have an immediate use for the BB gun and had spent what little money I did have on me at the time on some tools. If I were the type of man who learned from his mistakes, I would have walked to the Wal-Mart across the way, gotten the necessary funds from the ATM and returned to claim the gun and foils. Instead, I passed them by and, not long after that, regretted my decision.

In the weeks since I have gone back numerous times while the dealer has not.  I passed on the box of vaccuum tubes because he wanted $3 apiece for them and I already have a box of tubes that I haven't utilized yet. I also passed on the 2 foot tall, 9 inch diameter mercury vapor bulb. Looked really cool. Didn't have a use for it. I only regret passing that up a little bit.

Yesterday, again searching for the guy with the BB gun, I came across another find. One that I didn't pass up. It was the back end of a large format camera. The dealer said it was over a hundred years old and I did not doubt him. What's more, I had an immediate use for it: a frame for the tintype photograph of myself that I had taken after at Greenfield Village after the World Steam Expo.

The best $5 I've spent in quite a while.

Unfortunately, as a picture frame, the best part is the back. This requires that, for best effect, it be displayed on the mantle in front of the mirror.



 
 
 

Comments

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

After some re-arranging, it's found the right place on the mantle. It still doesn't do it justice. We may have to just hang it from fishing line in the middle of the room. (I am joking, of course.)

[dergeis.livejournal.com]

Don't think that didn't already cross my mind. The face has eye screws that would serve that purpose.