tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39973668810755207952024-02-06T20:49:03.702-08:00Millennium General Assemblyjewelry fabricated from fugitive bits of bygone finerymaidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-74503934068768081462017-01-12T00:04:00.003-08:002019-06-09T13:40:15.440-07:00Step Right Up! Get Your Original (Punny & Puny) Jokes Right Here!<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have a book of alphabetized words and phrases that have to do with getting even. You know—"just deserts," "karma," "machiavellian," "nemesis," "ostracism," "payback." It's called a vindictionary.<br />
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<br />maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-37110561552173689232016-10-08T00:31:00.000-07:002016-12-29T21:42:12.000-08:00I’m thrilled because I just found out I could retrieve all of the MySpace blogs that were deleted with no notice when the social-media site, in its death throes, did that major overhaulBecause I thought again of a blog I wrote on MySpace and again wistfully bemoaned its loss. Then I tried once more to google “lost Myspace blogs” and found out they were recoverable.<br />
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I feel like I got a part of my life back, an important part, because a lot of those blogs I wrote in the months after I met Mike. Like this one I wrote when he had left Pawleys Island and I was still there, missing him. Note my use of the subject “mooning,” years before we had a Moon of our own:<br />
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Sleeping close to the waves breaking on the shore. The surf like steel brushes. The tidal sway. I'm remembering your skin against mine, under my hands. The sea oats bend, shadows hatchmarked on the sand, curtains lofted by the wind.<br />
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The expression on this pup is so intelligent and happy, I just love it.<br />
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The dog came on the end of a spoon, maybe meant as a souvenir or as an award for a champion at a sheep-dog trial. I gave her a more fitting tail—one that wags a bit—of vintage aluminum and antique coral beads. I couldn’t bring myself to drill holes in those ears, so I backed her with two stars hand cut from a vintage tin container from Hong Kong that held ming kung cake…and, later, cereal, apparently.<br />
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<br />maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-49907854995317225982014-10-14T18:17:00.004-07:002016-12-29T21:46:01.052-08:00towers in a locket<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">This lovely gold-filled locket came from an antique store in Aurora, Oregon...such a nice locket. I cleaned it, then wanted to fill it. I thought of the embossed stocknagel* I got from a store in Latvia. So I cut two ovals from two stocknagel--one of</span> <a href="http://www.myczechrepublic.com/tabor/kotnov-tower.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Kotnov Tower</b></span></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">in Tábor, Czech
Repubic, and one of the</span> <a href="http://www.touristlink.com/austria/mariatrost-basilica/overview.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Mariatrost Basilica</b></span></a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">in Austria--to fit the locket's two sides. I shaped them to give them a slight dome, backed them with two cut-to-fit pieces of thin brass and put them behind the metal picture frames. The chain is composed of an antique gold-filled watch chain and a gold-filled necklace chain section. I found a cool antique spring clasp to close the necklace. See part of the process in the pics below.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span>maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-7168383711849480052014-07-12T14:43:00.001-07:002016-12-29T21:46:01.096-08:00MittelstandA question on Quora asks, "<a href="http://www.quora.com/Germany/What-does-Germany-do-right" target="_blank">What does Germany do right?</a>" Apparently, a lot. One example is the high quality of German products and the excellent service provided by the makers of those products. Case in point: A watch purchased in Germany in 1937 is taken back to the shop for repair around 1980, and they fix it "under warranty."<br />
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Businesses that hold reputability and reliability in such high regard are called <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand" target="_blank">Mittelstand</a>, "small and medium-sized enterprises in German-speaking countries," many of which "focus on innovative and high-value manufactured products." </span><br />
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We here at Millennium General Assembly (and by "we" I mean "I") recognize aspects of my own business plan (and by "business plan" I mean "general policies") in these tenets. I use mostly old, antique and vintage, parts to make my stuff, but I strive to make it as lasting and strong as possible, and I offer free adjustments and repairs for the life of the jewelry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My stuff, you can <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/MillenniumAssembly" target="_blank">buy here</a>.</td></tr>
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<br />maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-80640880277719288702014-04-17T03:48:00.001-07:002016-08-11T13:39:46.588-07:00NaPoWriMo timeI just found out it's National Poem Writing Month! That's long for NaPoWriMo, which I'd never heard about, though I know about NaNoWriMo, the month of writing a novel, which happens in November (which, I realize, is the date of my last blog entry, around the time I also wasn't writing a novel), which I've participated in several times, unsuccessfully, though I do have a T-shirt commemorating one year. I thought, <i>Well, this is far superior! Here, I have 30 days to attempt 30 poems, and even if I only manage to write one poem, I'll at least have the satisfaction of having finished one thing instead of nothing.</i> Since today is April 16, I've clearly not succeeded at half the poems so far, but I took <a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/2014/04/page/2/" target="_blank">the prompt for the day from this year's day 16</a>, "write a ten-line poem in which each line is a lie," and wrote a poem. Here you go:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>This Poem Doesn't Know How to Tell a Lie</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Of course it's Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">except when it's Tuesday—</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>then</i>, it's any other day of the week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This Tuesday, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">like any another Tuesday,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">will be followed by a succession of Tuesdays, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">succeeded only by chance with a Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And Wednesday's child is full of woe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">not bones and blood and guts and good intentions, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">rather, empty of all that is not woe. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Woe, and also, contradictions.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">She was up to her eyeballs in those.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Woe was also a cockatiel she knew</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">who belied his name by acting chipper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Child of woe met bird of cheer and thought, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Just once, can this be a bird who won't bite?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Of course Woe did.</span></div>
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maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-80705493191802210462013-11-12T14:24:00.002-08:002016-12-29T21:46:01.107-08:00Love Token Necklaces<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you're searching for a nice gift, I'll be listing quite a few love token necklace in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/MillenniumAssembly">my Etsy shop</a> in November. From the early
1800s to the early 1900s, tokens made from coins were given to loved ones by
suitors, friends and family. One side (sometimes both sides) of the coin were
smoothed down and engraved with initials, names, phrases and/or scenes. The
Seated Liberty dime from the 1850s–1880s was frequently used, but tokens are
known on all U.S. denominations, as well as on many world coin denominations. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://millenniumgeneralassembly.blogspot.com/2011/01/pretties.html" target="_blank">Here's an older picture of some of the tokens my collection</a>, a few of which have already sold. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you're interested in a particular token or necklace in one of
the pics, please shoot me an <a href="mailto:millenniumgeneralassembly@gmail.com">email</a>.</span><br />
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I failed to make perfect hardboiled eggs.<br />
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In fact, they were the most imperfectly boiled eggs I've ever accomplished.<br />
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After their ice bath, I peeled them and, for want of a better phrase, gave them a "squeeze feel." They felt gooshy, not hard, medium boiled at best. So I put them in a glass bowl with no cover and nuked them another minute or so.<br />
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While I was waiting for the microwave's ping, I pushed the shells down the disposal and turned it on. It seemed unbalanced and knocky, and I wondered if it were possible for an unbalanced disposal to fly off the pipes, which prompted me to imagine in great detail what would occur should that happen.<br />
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I pictured metal bits flying through the cabinet doors under the sink, with shards ripping into my knees and shins, which led me bleakly to pressure cookers and shrapnel and all the images and aftermath of the bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.<br />
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As I was thinking these things, I took the eggs out of the microwave and dumped them on a paper towel--and one of them exploded, hurling the yolk into my stomach. I shrieked, and then started laughing hysterically. Hysterically.<br />
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incident justice. I couldn't find one, so I drew this. And now I<br />
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maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-50998264348076475062013-03-11T16:14:00.000-07:002013-03-11T16:25:28.461-07:00personsIf your name was I, and you wrote a blog about something you'd done that day, you would be writing in first person and third person: "I wrote a blog about what I did today."<br />
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If your name was You, and you wrote a blog about something you'd done that day, you would be writing in second person and third person: "You wrote a blog about what you did today."<br />
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If your name was We, and you wrote a blog about something you'd done that day, you would be writing in first person and third person: "We wrote a blog about what we did today."<br />
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All you want to know about person and form and case: <a href="http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/first-second-and-third-person.aspx" target="_blank">go</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can't blog, dog.</td></tr>
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<br />maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-10457114075489967222013-03-07T14:54:00.000-08:002013-03-08T02:19:27.409-08:00dreadlocks for ElloreeI just came back from an estate sale half a block from my house. I scored a 200-year-old money bracelet from Ghana with a bunch of other costume jewelry for $20. I researched the bracelet when I got home and found others like it worth $700! But my favorite find was a collection of accordian-folded garlands. The woman in charge of the sale was going to throw them away and let me have them free. The lady who had lived there had made the garlands to cover her windows. She had lined the varying lengths of folded paper on hangers, arrayed along a curtain rod. I used to see her at her mailbox when I'd walk by with my dog, and she always said, "What a handsome dog." I can picture her folding strips of paper from magazines to make the garlands. I think they'll make excellent party decorations. In the meantime, I've hung them on Elloree's antlers.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">Fashion Forward</span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;">Millennium General Assembly handcrafts its jewelry from vintage and curious baubles, and each one-of-a-kind piece flashes a days-gone-by glamour. Necklaces and bracelets are constructed with Victorian keys and lockets, Old World watch fobs, and antique silver spoons and brooches, to name just a few of the eclectic elements carefully selected and transformed by the company's founder and chief craftswoman Maidel Margulies. In fact, most of the materials used by MGA are repurposed or "revived," which means you can be socially conscious and fashionista-like, all at once. millenniumgeneralassembly.com</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just made this more-delicate-than-is-usual-for-me necklace from an antique watch chain and vintage brass rosary chain and a tiny pin I got in Hardy, Arkansas, made of brass and celluloid. The pin was costume jewelry in its day but is closer to fine today.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And here I will confess that I used to perform this song by the Indigo Girls when I lived in the Florida Keys. It was the end of the '80s, and I'm a sucker for a nice melody and decent lyrics, so I was playing Edie Brickell and Suzanne Vega and Emmylou Harris, and if she'd made her break by then, I would have been playing Sheryl Crow, but that would have to wait till the '90s. Before Vega's "Luka" was a hit single, I'd said, "Damn, this song should be a hit single, but it's too dark."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I'm trying to tell you something about my life</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">And lightness has a call that's hard to hear</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I wrap my fear around me like a blanket</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">He graded my performance, he said he could see through me</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">And I was free. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before</span></span></div>
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maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-84237094455290735702012-11-02T17:53:00.002-07:002016-12-29T21:46:01.114-08:00the little unnecessities of life are not inconsequential<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">This past weekend, I flew to Kansas to attend a cousin's wedding. I hadn't seen most of my Kansas cousins--my dad's twin brothers, their wives and kids--for 30 years. Why? There's really no good reason, and now I wish I'd visited more.
My family lived in Tennessee and took driving vacations each summer, spending a week or so in Kansas, and at least once, our Kansas relatives visited us in Tennessee.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I don't know if it's because time moves so slowly when you're a kid, or if it was just the experiences we shared over so many summers together, but Kansas and summers spent with my cousins comprise a profound and beloved part of my childhood.
It was great to go back and see them all.
Before the wedding, some of us took in a musical and stayed in a Victorian B&B in Abilene. There were vintage hats in the Victorian parlor.
We went antiquing the next day. I found a few things.</span><br />
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I bought these plaques for not very much money, maybe
ten bucks. I thought I might use them in an assemblage one day; I didn't know
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At first I thought these plaques were from a metronome but the text* on <br />
the piece from the upper left reveals them to be from a player piano.</td></tr>
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I started cutting up tin and making pieces with it. Now there are tin snips and
files and shears at hand. And when I started making a necklace for a friend who's a stellar guitarist, <a href="http://www.janegetter.com/">Jane Getter</a>, searching through my
cabinets for pieces to assemble, I came across the player-piano plaques and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The volume control was already banner-shaped, but the brass was thinner,<br />
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maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-25189791906917441152012-08-29T15:34:00.003-07:002016-12-29T21:46:00.980-08:00work in progress...on a plate<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">antique game pieces from France, vintage rosary chain, <br />
vintage brass and steel chain, antique brass uniform <br />
beads, antique crystal bead, vintage black steel bead</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tin riveted to antique yellow-dyed bone game counter, antique<br />
yellow enamel and sterling watch chain, antique turquoise enamel <br />
and brass watch chain, African trade beads, copper heshi beads, vintage <br />
copper leaf bracelet links, antique dog clips from watch chains</td></tr>
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<br />maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3997366881075520795.post-55404237136197122942012-07-12T17:46:00.000-07:002016-12-29T21:46:01.066-08:00tobacco tin time: plugging my plug pluggers<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've forayed into homemade rivets, attaching tin
tobacco tags and the like to tin-can backings cut from a Sunshine Candies container. I'll be
selling these goodies at Renegade Handmade (see previous post).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tin tobacco tags were a promotional tool used circa 1880-1920. <br />These are all tobacco tags except the feather and the key, which were <br />promotional pinbacks from Red Feather Services, a forerunner to <br />the United Way, and a 1947 tourist promotional key that was worn by <br />teachers and students visiting D.C. and Virginia on spring break.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to <a href="http://cigarhistory.info/">cigarhistory.info</a>, "A key strategy
in the war for market supremacy was the offering of household items as
premiums in exchange for tags. The man who couldn’t afford to buy his
wife a set of silver-plated tableware, might be able to accumulate the 500 tags
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mixes it up with 1940s TWA DC-3 pin from a Stetson Stratoliner. Metals are
mixed, too: brass and nickel silver chains and plane; and steel and pinchbeck
(an alloy of copper and zinc that shines like gold) on the button. Two links
from an antique watch chain accent the neck. Delicate brass-beaded rosary chain
holds the twin-engine craft. That bitty plane makes me happy to no end.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I worry about offending people, which is the reason I hesitate to use anything that even looks like old ivory. I mean, really, to say that it's pre-ban ivory doesn't make it okay; an elephant killed for its pieces is still a murdered elephant. Unless you've been desecrating an elephant graveyard or finding the actual skeleton itself. I guess if I'm walking the savannah and trip over a tusk, I could use that tusk without guilt.<br />
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I've sometimes questioned the acceptability of using of items depicting circus elephants. I don't think most captive, trained animals are happy.<br />
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And what about bones? Are they okay? I purchased some old ivory piano keys, intending to try my hand at scrimshaw.<br />
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Also, I'm reluctant to incorporate feathers in my pieces. Where are they coming from? <a href="http://millenniumgeneralassembly.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-material.html" target="_blank">I did find an already road-killed pheasant</a> on a trip a couple of years ago, so I can use its feathers without guilt.maidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12265639708710986908noreply@blogger.com0