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Would you wear and use a vintage pocket watch?

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Identify the Antique Medical Devices!


I found these interesting and seemingly antiquish brass devices on a very high shelf at a local store (a pharmacy, actually), and asked if I could take a photo of them.  To her credit, the employee did not appear to think I was a crazy person (for long) and even stepped aside for me to snap the shot. 

The employees that I asked did not know what they were, as the items were "just for decoration."  I would think that the instrument on the far right is a microscope, but the purpose of the other two eludes me. I would like to know what you think (or know) these medical curiosities/devices are.  If they are simply some excellent examples of steampunk quackery, please let me know that as well! (To mention, the sprigs stemming from the center item are sparkly gold reeds, and are not a part of the device. I know, I was disappointed, too.)

Please leave your helpful comments here.  Thank you, and enjoy the mystery!  =)

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Amazing Antique Pocket Watches


     Just because I can... here are, you guessed it, some really amazing pocket watches that I wanted to share with you.

     I was researching the origins of the pentagon pocket watch case, from one of which I made a pendant which is still for sale (hint hint), and found these along the way.  (I will post about the history of the five-sided beauties another time.)  Here are some of my favorites!






     These were but a few of the pieces for sale by this antiques merchant, Lang Antiques; they have four glorious pages of pocket watches, lapel watches, and the like.  (Disclaimer: I do not work for them, I simply spent time drooling over their merchandise, whatever relationship that entails, if any.  =p)

     If you adore pocket watches as much as I do, it will be worth your while to take a look at the rest of their inventory.   It warms my heart that such care is being taken to preserve these beautiful works of art.

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