ClydeAntique

The Old - the Unique - the Eclectic....

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ClydeAntique turned 6 today!

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Claude Monet in his atelier in Giverny, 1920

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Notice his desk.  Surrounded by great paintings!

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Never mind the Social Security increase, seniors are in trouble — here’s why

It’s getting harder for retirees to avoid poverty.

The aging population will bring the economy down if they have no spending power.  Who will provide for them?  Why should they live in poverty with so many billionaires who pay almost no taxes???

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Banksy Painting Self-Destructs After Fetching $1.4 Million at Sotheby’s

The British street artist Banksy appeared to pull off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday night, with a frame that shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it sold.

This is how artist make money, get famous and PROMOTE themselves today!  What are you doing???

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Temperament or Rash Behavior???

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David Hockney Painting, Estimated at $80 M., Could Break Records in November Sale at Christie's -

The work, titled Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), comes from the collection of billionaire Joe Lewis. Read More

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The battle over a flag has cost Larry Murphree hundreds of thousands of dollars and consumed years of his life.

There is no real freedom in the USA anymore!  You can not even fly a small US flag in gated, regieme communities, yet most people do not realize it!

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From Trump to Bieber, Twitter purge wipes millions of followers from famous users

The great Twitter purge began Thursday afternoon, with fake followers disappearing from millions of accounts

Beware of Twitter!  Now they are the Fake News provider with censoring their followers and deleting accounts they do not like.  No one can trust them now! And, should anyone be surprised that their stock value is going down???

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(via Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great as Herakles - 3D model by Emily Lankiewicz)

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This professor says the workplace is the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S.

"There are basically 120,000 excess deaths per year attributed to workplace conditions and they cause $190 billion in incremental health care costs."

Work from Home is often the best idea - or at least from a quiet place you can control.  

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I'm not 54. I'm 22 with 32 years experience.

This is not a rant. This is not about how we did things back in our day. This is about a real concern An age concern. Let's put things into

Everyone should read this and end Age Discrimination!!! 

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Charleston Zouave Cadets on the parapet of Castle Pinckney guarding Union POWs below them who were captured at the First Battle of Bull Run, c. 1861.

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So - where did this photo come from??  What is the documentation on this??? Documentation is everything!!!  I have never seen this before.

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Charleston Zouave Cadets on the parapet of Castle Pinckney guarding Union POWs below them who were captured at the First Battle of Bull Run, c. 1861.

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Forgotten picture of Castle Pinckney in Charleston Harbor.  Why can’t we visit Castle Pinckney today?  It was given away to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and Not opened to the Public!!!  Why???  This site belongs to the public!!!

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A circa 1900 photograph of a beach house with the Morris Island lighthouse visible in the background.

From the McLeod Family Papers, 1873-1990 collection held the by South Carolina Historical Society.

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Excessively Rare Neo-Elamite Phiale Mesomphalos for Ampirish, King of Sama ti, Son of Dabala, 7th-6th Century BC

A silver phiale mesomphalos with intersecting bulbous gadroons to the base, flaring rim and central boss decorated with rosette and framed by lines; short cuneiform inscription to the rim refers to Ampirish, son of Dabala. Ampirish was the ruler of Samati, a small kingdom whose location has yet to be discovered.  17cm (6 ¾")

Learn more about this vessel from this video

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This should be reproduced!!

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Exceedingly Rare Sumerian Green Chalcedony Cylinder Seal of King Kurigalzu II, Kassite, 14th Century BC

A chrome chalcedony cylinder seal with seated profile figure and Sumerian cuneiform inscription in eight columns; depicting a seated bearded divine figure facing left, holding a trident, three right-facing locusts above; the eight lines of scholarly Sumerian cuneiform text with a prayer to Ninurta for the prosperity of Kurigalzu’s reign. The seal fitted with an antique gold pin passed through the original longitudinal perforation and a loop to enable it to be worn as a pendant. Translation (by Professor Lambert) for each column:

(1) dkur-da-ru gada gìr / ‘Ninurta, powerful lord’ (2) saĝ kal šà-aš-DU / 'special chief, foremost’ (3) ururu mah an-ta-ğál / 'the lofty city (?) being in heaven’ (4) ur-saĝ dili-ni rib-ba / 'champion on his own standing out’ (5) [diğir] ní-su-ši ri-a / 'the god moving with a halo of terror’ (6) ku-ri-gal-zu / ’(on) Kurigalzu’ (7) nun nì tuku-tuku-zu / 'the prince who reveres you’ (8) bala šà dùg-ga ğar-bi / 'place a reign of sweet heart’.

The extremely rare green variety of chalcedony was only known to the ancients and the Romans, until circa 3rd century AD, when it disappears from history. It is only known from small worked pieces such as beads and intaglios. The source has been recently discovered as being from northern Turkey (Anatolia). The color derives from the presence of chromium.

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Cylinder seals are the best of ancient things you can own!!  Museum quality!!  And, they were very important in the ancient world.

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As Boomers shed their stuff, their offspring reject it

Their lifestyles mean that their boomer parents’ furniture, china and knickknacks are going to auctions, thrift shops — or dumps.