Background Reading Archives - Vintage Man Stuff

05 Jul

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage style, Vintage toy information

1500 items on Vintage Man Stuff – Celebrating with ALF

July 5, 2021
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In celebration of the 1500th item added to VintageManStuff.com today (July 5th 2021) I awarded myself this piece of Vintage Man Stuff. It is an original ALF series puppet/Doll holding his stuff (2 mus...

15 Jun

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage style

Great vintage collection: Early automatic wrist watches

June 15, 2021
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Some ancient history and perspective Before the early automatic wrist watches, there were pocket watches.These marvelous pieces of engineering were somewhat bulky since size was restricted only by th...

30 Jan

Background Reading, Collecting vintage

Great vintage collection: Pocket slide rules

January 30, 2021
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Slide rules are a field of collecting in their own right, read the article Great vintage collection : slide rules, for general information on this calculation aid. In this article I will be looking in...

16 Sep

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage Design item, Vintage Manly Tools, Vintage style

Great vintage collection: the electronic calculator

November 17, 2020
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When doing your math homework you were happy with every tool dat could make your calculations quicker. In the 1970's you could choose between learning to operate the slide rule (see vintage collection...

15 Sep

Vintage Manly Tools, Vintage style

Vintage manly tools: the coffee grinder

June 3, 2021
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Grinding roasted coffee beans is hard work when doing it by hand. So let's call it a manly job! I like to share some information here on the art of coffee grinding for a great cup of coffee....vintag...

04 Sep

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Uncategorized, Vintage Manly Tools, Vintage style

Great vintage collection: circular slide rules from Holland by ALRO

September 4, 2020
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Slide rules are a field of collecting in their own right, read the article Great vintage collection : slide rules, for general information on this calculation aid. In this article I will be looking in...

02 Sep

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage Design item, Vintage style

Collecting Vintage: The Durobor or Dur-o-bor Coffee maker

September 27, 2020
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There are many ways to make slow coffee. At the birth of the Durobor stands the methode commonly known as "drip style coffee", where hot water runs through a filter holding the coffee grind. For insta...

30 Aug

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage Manly Tools

Great vintage collection: slide rules

January 30, 2021
By [email protected]
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This article is looking into collecting slide rules, the calculating aid that was widely used before the electronic pocket calculator (different field of collecting). From as early as the 17th century...

14 Jul

Collecting vintage, Mancave ideas

Great vintage collection: Beer Mug, Stein and Stoneware

August 26, 2020
By [email protected]
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There are several things I am interested in. Amongst these are drinking beer, collecting and vintage stuff. Resulting in picking up vintage beer mugs whenever I can. I think the region I live in is ve...

21 May

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage Design item, Vintage Manly Tools, Vintage style

Vintage Timeless design: Parva Stapler by Romeo Maestri

May 31, 2020
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The Maestri Company Founded in Milano, Italy by Romeo Maestri in 1919 the Company first manufactured various kinds of seals like string safety seals, seals for mills and post parcels. Maestri’s wife ...

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