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18 Jan

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage Manly Tools, Vintage Stuff Manmade, Vintage style

Great vintage collection: miniature oil cans

January 18, 2022
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They are small, can be carried in your hand or pocket and were an important part of the industrial revolution: miniature oil cans! Often made of tin measuring about 2 - 3 inches or 5 - 7 cm and quite ...

20 Oct

Background Reading, Collecting vintage, Vintage Manly Tools, Vintage Stuff Manmade

Great vintage collection: Divers compasses and Depth meters

October 20, 2021
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When look for quality, this is often found with items that have to reliable in their use. For instance watches have to be very precise in their timekeeping and carpenter hand tool have to endure under...

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

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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

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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

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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
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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...

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