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Month: August 2010

  • Fibre archeology; weekend garage sale dig; exciting find

    IMG_2655 This was the site notice and the promised content gave it priority. 

    IMG_2657 Spotted on a table with many other things,  the old paper bag and the glimpse of yarn trailing to an object spurred further investigation.

    IMG_2658 The bag, turned over …..  a handwritten name ….. 

     

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    More excavation ….

    IMG_2660 Aaaaaahhhhhhh …….

    IMG_2661 Ooooohhhhhhh …..

    IMG_2662 A miniature toy  monkey.  NELSON …  Red  Heel …Rockford  Socks.  Worth pursuing for dating and origin and history.  The scale will not likely be appropriate for my miniature house-in-progress but maybe an incongruous addition.

    IMG_2663 As far as I can tell without having gone through the directions it is all there.

    Will I make one – or both – monkeys?  I don't know.  And it would not seem right to make one and not the other.  Or maybe make one and mount it and the raw material for the other with the directions in some sort of display.  Of course my idea of display veers toward the wearable.  Hmmm.  Part of a vest ……   ?