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To avoid thread derail for one more time, lets show them here:ha:
My radio Eric
Sultan Blaupunkt from late 50s

U can see its still working and sound is incredible for souch primitive tehnology.

Backside with sheme

Flourescent bulb as signal indicator

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And talking about old houses this is one of ours in village.
Buildt in 1870 and will still have to wait for some time for seriuos investment. Im planing to make rental apartment in it for tourists once. That would be very atractive I hope:

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Awesome, Ante :) ! That's one beautiful old radio! Also, that'd make a Great tourist place! Looks like lots of fun!
Unfortunately, the 1943 radio my dad bought & fixed doesn't have many features. Just has 2 little knobs. One turns it on & the other switches channels. But he got it working super! When ya turn it on, the light starts out dim & it takes time before ya hear anything. Then, the channels are mixed together & ya have to turn the knob to get to a single channel. He found a station playin Mexican music & it played it loud & clear! Won't play FM stuff, though, only AM but it works great!
Here's some of the pics i took. Dad made a 3 minute movie of it being turned on & playin music but it's too big to upload here.

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i have many atiques but as im on a new conputer you all will have to give me a few days to get pictures

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I don't personally have any antiques, but the cities here sure do...

Ante, I see your 1870 and raise you 1625. This is the Basilica de Santa Teresita de la Virgen Negra, in Quito. It's equally impressive from the outside, and has been meticulously restored. I wish I were able to get a good picture of where it's situated, though. It's surrounded by modern skyscrapers.

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WoW! U R pope?:ha::ha::ha:
I was reffering on showing your own antiques
:woohoonaner:

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Before you guys get going with this thread I'd like to call your attention to the definition of an "Antique" Wikipedia says 50-100 years old qualifies as antique, but most people say 100 years or more.

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To anyone who browses antique shops these days the question "What is an antique?" seems to have many answers. Side by side with ancient-looking furniture and. old- fashioned china, browsers may find ruffled pink glass and souvenir spoons, no older than themselves. The problem bewilders not only buyers but dealers, too.

In 1930 the U.S. Government ruled that objects had to be at least a 100 old to be classified as antiques, so they could be admitted duty free into the U.S. But that was a legislative tax decision. Since then antiques have often been defined as objects made before 1830.

In Europe, items as recent as that seem quite young. In contrast with a classic Roman head, an 18th-century chair is modern. Antique shops in European cities are often called "antiquities" shops. Except for Indian relics and a few Spanish buildings in the Southwest, the oldest American antiques are but 300 years old.

Yet Americans experience the same contrast in their shops. To a New Englander who knows the pine furniture of Pilgrim days, a Victorian sofa doesn't seem antique. But in Nebraska or Oregon it does, because it represents the earliest furnishings in the region. The age of antiques seems to vary in relation to their environment. And so the perception of "What is antique?" changes from region to region and one part of the world to another.

Americans often count among their antiques items made by machine as well as those wrought by hand. Most of these are later than 1830. That date does, however, serve as a dividing line between the age of craftsmanship and the machine age.

Legends grow on antiques the way moss grows on trees. As a family heirloom is passed from one generation to the next, its history takes on added flourishes. A spinning wheel made in 1820 becomes the spinning wheel brought over on the Mayflower. A bed of 1840 becomes a
bed George Washington slept in.

But while the personal associations of heirlooms add to their interest, they can't be relied upon to place their date and source. Not every old piece has a pedigree or a maker's mark or label, but every one has characteristics that identify it which make it valuable to someone else. The secret of where and when and by whom it was made is in its material, its design, and its workmanship. So an antique is what the collector knows or perceives it to be. Nothing more.

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Lorax - I see your 1625 and raise you 1509 - the house of Bartolome Colon - Christopher Columbus' brother

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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap (Post 109387)

WoW! U R pope?:ha::ha::ha:
I was reffering on showing your own antiques
:woohoonaner:

My full title is Pope Lorax XVII, of the Holy Empire of Rum

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Totally Sweet! Luv old architecture! Luv History! Thanx for the info on antiques definitions, Mitchel! Btw, I owe Beth a lot for gettin me interested in history... Thanx Beth!
Also, found out why dad bought the radio. Has a lot to do with how computers started. Learned today that the tubes acted like transistors that could amplify currents. Computers needed lots of transistors (vacume tubes) so the first ones were gigantic and couldnt do very much. Now they use photography to etch thousands of transistors on a quarter inch square wafer-like thing so computers can be Real small.
Okay, this is an "Old object" that my dad bought years ago. It was made in the 1920's but doesn't have a keypad so I dont know how it ever worked. But they used these before they had cells:

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Eric, that phone would have connected to a central switchboard in the town, where a real live operator would be responsible for putting you through to the person you wanted to talk to.

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 109566)

Eric when this phone was in ues all phones were conected to a central swiching board were a real person called the operrator would manulay take a lin frome your phone and click it in to the line of the phone nuber you wanted to talke to this was cumbersom as the number of phone lins grew evetualy it was replaced with the automated swiching system which was a cage like devise with stacked contacts I wont go in to more on that unless you want me to nedlis to say it took thosands of wires for just a smale number of phone if you get a chans to look at any pictures of towns in the 20s you will note that thers many phone lines showing up in thouse pictures many people mistakinly idetify theas lines in the pictures as electric serive lines but in fact are phone lines

you see there are some benafits to being old LOL

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here are some photos demonstrating diffirent swiching boards from the pre rotory dialing days

here is a piture showing the many phone lines that had to be run in those pre auto swiching days

althoe there were many phone co in the begining by the 1950 there was just about the one and only we all rember it heres there logo

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lorax we must have posted simtaneously

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lol! You were much more thorough in your explanation, though.

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Thanx Beth & Paul :) !! That's incredible Deluxe!! That's a LOT of wires! See why they had to get better ideas - Bet the birds Luv'd it though, lots of places to sit :) !
So, what I figure is that ya just picked up that black tube-looking thing & somebody was just sitting somewhere ready to find out who ya wanted to call...? Would make it easier But cant imagine how many wires they'd need now!
Thanx for all the Super pics, too :) !

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I guess my house is a antique then...lol :^)

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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 109937)

yes there was a person referd to as the oparator mostly this would have been a woman her job was to sit there and answer ever call that came to her board it was tiersom and at times of high call volume stressfull my mother was a telaphon operator for many many years hes the reson i know so much on the subject and the fact that i love any bit of historical fact i lived in a house for years that was built in the 1850 in a town that had the second largest number of milinaris in the 18th cetury of cours Natches Mississippi was the largest number of milunars during the civl war if you ever get a chans to go there its a highly informativ city to visit but i digress so all stope there

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Originally Posted by Abnshrek (Post 109957)

I guess my house is a antique then...lol :^)

i guess im antque too heheheh at least mentaly LOL

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this is my most precious antique was built in england in the 1850 it is characterized as Empire a stile originating during Napoleons rain note the imperialistic boxy form the pediments are curved the columns are of curly mahogany the rest of the piece is veined of satin and crouch wood Mahogany all but one piece of glass are original and even have the original mineral glazing its in its original finish i have oiled it ones a year it has a small bit of damage to its verniers i have saved all the pieces and occasionally i repair it the only damage is to the upper desk drawer where it was inundated with water that cam threw are roof on September 18 1993 when a un documented Tornado swept threw are small town of Lexington Mo riping the roof off of are historic residence Linwood lawn also built in the 1950's you can look up my old house on the net if you would like

there is some back ground on this piece but i won't go in to that unless you all want me to

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BACKGROUND!! BACKGROUND!! BACKGROUND!! (((PLEASE???))) :)
LOVE the stories behind old pieces Paulo!!! :) ~Cheryl