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Aug. 28th, 2006 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyJust went to an antiques and collectors fair, which was unfairly loaded with things I couldn't afford. I was glad to see the only pocket watch I could find was entirely too brash to be my sort of thing, but there were gorgeous old compasses and barometers that made me squee. Also cameo brooches - I know they're dreadfully old fashioned, but I'd love to have one for the tweed winter coat I'm also on the lookout for.
*grins*
My life is lived in dreams.
What I was most particularly on the lookout for, though, was something I've been pondering for a while and was something I found in the first five minutes of getting in there - an old brass telescope. It's small and pretty, brass with wood inlay, made in Austria - not a clue when, but that's really not the point. It was only £19, too. I am a happy little Nny.
[eta: looking online it looks to be mid-late 1800's, and I unscrewed it and cleaned it a little and it totally works. So much more gleeful. Dude, how old do you reckon that dust is? XD]
The thing with me is that I will never be a very serious collector because I go for things I like rather than things of value. I'm not hugely bothered by first editions, I just like old and pretty books; if I can't read something, if I'm too worried by how much it ought to be worth to touch the book then I'm doing it a disservice. It's like a quote I saw once - you can't dishonour a book by underlining in it, annotating, dogearing pages; you can only dishonour a book by not reading it.
And now I've spent a couple of hours on my feet so I have to curl up on my bed for a bit. Going to work for seven hours tomorrow is going to be really bloody interesting.
*winces*
*grins*
My life is lived in dreams.
What I was most particularly on the lookout for, though, was something I've been pondering for a while and was something I found in the first five minutes of getting in there - an old brass telescope. It's small and pretty, brass with wood inlay, made in Austria - not a clue when, but that's really not the point. It was only £19, too. I am a happy little Nny.
[eta: looking online it looks to be mid-late 1800's, and I unscrewed it and cleaned it a little and it totally works. So much more gleeful. Dude, how old do you reckon that dust is? XD]
The thing with me is that I will never be a very serious collector because I go for things I like rather than things of value. I'm not hugely bothered by first editions, I just like old and pretty books; if I can't read something, if I'm too worried by how much it ought to be worth to touch the book then I'm doing it a disservice. It's like a quote I saw once - you can't dishonour a book by underlining in it, annotating, dogearing pages; you can only dishonour a book by not reading it.
And now I've spent a couple of hours on my feet so I have to curl up on my bed for a bit. Going to work for seven hours tomorrow is going to be really bloody interesting.
*winces*
