Mildly interesting things I own:
-a broken pocketwatch with two really pretty spots of wear on the face -the cover of a 100+ year old german bible -a ton of old vintage photographs, a dmv card from 1918, a brochure for the world’s fair from 1889, a bunch of old newspaper clippings etc, all acquired by not quite nefarious means from my old job -the components of a stained glass mobile that once belonged to my grandmother. she was part of an art exhibit and her poetry was printed and displayed along with this mobile. it includes orange sun-circles, blue waves, rectangles of green and clear glass, and two large white-and-mirror eyes. i haven’t put it together because i want some nice driftwood to attach it to. -a empty glass bottle with “knoxit” embossed on the side. apparently it was gonorrhea medication in the 1950s. -a globe which i bought from goodwill for ~50 cents and turned into a lamp -a heart-shaped pin made from abalone with the letter “p” on it in wire and a little red gem where the curves of the heart meet. i found it in a bowl of free trinkets on the street. -a jar of bent spoons -a jar of large dried up pieces of honeycomb taken from an abandoned beehive -a new york magazine from the 70′s with a main article about andy warhol and a smaller one about monty python’s new movie, holy grail -a small collection of letterpress blocks -a long robins egg blue wooden chest. i went to goodwill to buy an end table in 2017. there was no end table, but there was this chest and it spoke to me. it was $8. i never bought an end table -a working royal royalite typewriter -loads of old foreign stamps acquired from a local maker store -some pysanky eggs -a pair of porcelain hands i found in an alley in chicago -a pocket book (? i don’t know any other word for it) from 1923 by the nixon livestock commission company. the inside includes a 1923/24 calendar, an “identification” page to record your name, license plate, height and weight, etc, a “help in case of accident” page with handy tips if you get hurt or poisoned, a page on calculating interest, a bunch of pages about postage and mail, a few pages on the populations of various cities, space for addresses, a bunch of grid pages for notes, a page on anniversaries/holidays, etc. -a vintage wooden cigar box without a lid. i keep my packs of incense sticks in it. -a pair of old art deco-ish salt shakers that have oxidized a bit -a glass that was specifically made to look dimpled and bent out of shape, like it has a cramp and is bending over. it was given to me by a coworker who didn’t want it anymore. -a smallish turtle shell -a pair of old victorian-style wire sunglasses. i found them tangled in a dish rack full of dirty cups at my old job as a dishwasher. i have no idea how they got there.
