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dime_novel_hero) wrote2011-07-17 06:26 pm
dime_novel_hero) wrote2011-07-17 06:26 pm
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The Perfect Frame
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.
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.