Small package with the text 'Clansman' Microphone and a bunch of product and mil spec numbers, and 'made by adavanced acoustics ltd Dartforth Kent England
The reverse of the microphone package, you can just see the solder terminals of the microphone
For #ThingThursday a tiny little microphone that once belonged to composer David Tudor.
#ThingThursday wooden truck and tank carved by Private James Pardoe of the Green Howards. James is one of the many POWs featured in my book The Undefeated now available from www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk/bookstore and Amazon amzn.eu/d/09dsVGeS
this is a bronze casting of a triceratops brain, it was cast from a mold made out of an actual fossilized triceratops skull brain case, and is as true-to-life as such a casting could be. #thingthursday
Here lies James (redacted) 1981-2015, devoted friend, lover of __________. Cards Against Humanity card
#ThingThursday - what a card!
An issue of People celebrating Prince, a special collectors, edition tribute, on a blueish and tannish rug.
Not sure how much of a collectors edition it is but still…
#ThingThursday #Prince 💜
A blue hyacinth in a white pot.
A hyacinth, 2026
📷me (not pictured: its intoxicating scent)
#ThingThursday #Bloomscrolling
Today's #ThingThursday is one of my favourite archive finds - its a shame its just a photocopy! This is a 'last-ditcher's' pass to get onto the last train or other transport out of Rangoon. These were issued to the 600 or so who responsible for the demolitions of vital infrastructure in February.
ope! this is totally my thing today.
#ThingThursday
A photo of various pieces of the stones named above. There is a pink and yellowish piece of novakulite from Arkansas on the left, a few lake Superior agates with intact skin that you can't really see into, a piece of smoky quartz, a couple pieces of chert, and some pieces of Jasper. Around two dozen stones and all with a penny for scale, they are all larger than a penny, but a couple of them, not by much.
My fingers holding up a really beautiful piece of Jasper that shows stripes of yellow, green, orange, blue, black, white in some places, and red. It almost looks like the Aurora over a town at night
For #ThingThursday, I've been pulling together rocks from my collection that I want to tumble or cut/face grind before tumbling. These are all quartz, quartzite, agate, novaculite, or jasper, including my favorite piece of jasper I've found, so far.
A coaster from the Picasso museum with an eye on it
This is the only surviving coaster that my mom got at the Picasso museum.
And it stares at you.
#ThingThursday
Foot tambourine on a socked foot
Handwritten: My Dear Grandson, Hope the weather is warming up for you. Card portion: Thought about you again today... all day long! Handwritten: Please cash this saving bond and get something special. The foot bells are to help you keep time with you piano tunes Lots of Love Gramma
#ThingThursday - foot bells 🥁
The ancient amphora in the Met reminded me of this: a perfume vial, mother-of-pearl and (?) brass, about 2 in. long.
I often wondered what era it might be - it's an item from the mother-or-grandmother hoard - and found lot of them for sale on line, designated as Victorian. 📷me #ThingThursday
It's #ThingThursday! This week this is my Kodak Retina II Type 142-made between 1937-39 in Stuttgart-I bought this just before I went on school trips to the FWW battlefields, Auschwitz and Munich. Some really haunting photos, like the ones at Hooge Crater Museum, and the gate outside Auschwitz I.
A lighter shaped like a frog sitting up with his mouth open and belching fire. His gaze always on the beautiful flame.
Been a while, but here's a #thingthursday for ya! My favorite lighter ever. Mom got it for me shortly after I was out of high school. I love my little metal froggy. He likes to start fires, just like me.
Do you have a favorite lighter? I'd love to see it if you do!
Kids in the Hall live show program on a fake wood vinyl floor
Not sure if this was from the show I got my head professionally crushed at on the big screen or not.
#ThingThursday
Pack of cards with photo of Elvis on front
#ThingThursday
Elvis: The Cards of His Life unopened pack (1992)
Image of a brown paper shopping bag with a handle. Text in red says: "Make This Bag Last! Paper is Vital to the War Effort; help save it. Parcels carried save gasoline, rubber and wrapping materials. EATON'S"
Make This Bag Last!
I note these are making a comeback, sans message, with at least one grocery behemoth.
#ThingThursday #WWII #Eaton's #Ephemera
MagnaCard business card magnet bundles. Adhesive magnets to stick business cards on
#ThingThursday is another reminder of a bygone era.
I'm going to use them to make homemade fridge magnets with my own designs.
Slightly quaint little thing for #ThingThursday - my Great-Grandfather Jasper Botten's Home Guard shooting competition trophy from 1941. It's barely 10cms tall, but I love it and my Grandfather was rather proud of his old man's achievement - he would have been ten in 1931...
A small old flashlight, opened up, batteries dead
A small old flashlight, opened up, batteries replaced, light on
The small old flashlight in hand, working
#ThingThursday this Energizer-brand flashlight I inherited: no way to open it up to replace batteries. I broke it open, replaced them, fixed it with packing tape. I was like, is this for real, a “single use” flashligh? Yes.
#ThingThursday - a second #Shrok has been built from the leftover rocks I had! I'm still waiting for the glue to dry & may add some more pieces for the arms, but this 2nd one could possibly "Fi-ore-na"?
Follow your dreams, everyone! 🪨
P.S. I'll be arranging shipping for both to @ziibiing.com soon.✨
Saw them at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on August 30, 1997 too. Weird Al opened.
#ThingThursday
A white glass mug that has text in brown script that reads: “If you can’t dazzle them with Brilliance baffle Them with Bullshit.”
Since y’all seem to really enjoy drinkware for #ThingThursday, here is one of my favorite mugs. It was a thrifted gift from a friend and it’s too special for coffee. It lives on my desk and holds random crap.
It's #ThingThursday (it's a thing!), & is a little bit special. My great-grandfather Jasper Botten's Soldier's Small Book, his Pay Book, & a little pocket history of the 1st Royal Sussex Regt that he had clearly got from someone else. He spent the FWW on garrison duty, which maybe saved his life.
White coffee mug with a green graphic, featuring a leaping trout going after a fishing fly, with the fly fisher silhouetted in the background. Arching text around the trout reads "NEC-IV Grand River 1997" and below the trout in large all caps is "Flyfish@" "NEC-IV" stands for 4th annual Northeast Conclave, an in-person gathering of the "Flyfish@" email listserv. still hosted out of the University of Kentucky, it has members from all over the world but the biggest annual gatherings are in the Northeastern US. This 4th one was a rare Canadian exception
#ThingThursday following @robcruickshank.bsky.social 's sharing of Old (pre-social media) Internet souvenirs, here's a commemorative mug from the first IRL gathering i attended, of the #flyfishing email listserv i still subscribe to :)
Sadly, Facebook literally decimated the traffic on that group
