William Hair Haseler for Liberty & Co Arts and Crafts enamelled silver vesta case, blue and green enamelled sinuous design to centre, engraved monogram verso, hallmarked Birmingham 1905
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Early Detailed Bradley & Hubbard Beetle Match Safe
Distinctive cast brass beetle with lovely details and a striker belly. Signed on the inside and used to hold matches. In the history of Bradley & Hubbard - a company active from 1852-1940 - they secured 238 patents for their designs. For more about the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company, check out this great resource from the Smithsonian Institute:
Masters of Metalwork: Selected Objects from the Smithsonian Institution Castle Collection
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Lone Jack, MO
Soulis Auctions
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Steddie's daughter packing a couple of her barbies into Eddie's luggage one time just before he was set to go on a short tour because she didn't want him to feel lonely while away from home
and so Eddie sends Steve pictures like this captioned "we gettin craaaaaaaazy in the bus tonight!"
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some profile pictures! free to use! credit me as windmills123
lancer and berdly
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local loserboy under the impression that skin grafting is when you sew your flesh together (wrong) (homo)
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Bring Your Kid to Work Day!
(These two deserve something nice after last episode... from simpler times when the Closes were truly a trio)
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The author
After all the otherworldly experiences he'd been through, Danny was tired, being King of the Infinite Realms didn't make up for that fact, Jazz had talked to him about it at some point, something about processing the trauma now that he was in a safe place.
He tried to ask his mentor for advice on how to get that weight off his chest but Clockwork told him that it was not the time yet and offered him some cookies, which frankly were delicious but did not help with his current problem.
In the end it was Ghostwriter who found a solution, when Danny went to his library looking for information on what to do, he ended up meeting the ghost, Ghostwriter gave him some strange but useful advice, probably unintentionally "You could censor what happened a bit and write a book about it, it's a good story."
And as stupid as it sounded, he did it, he wrote a whole saga of books about his experiences, recounting everything as if it were a fairy tale in an invented world. It helped more than he thought at first and made him feel a little lighter at the end of the day.
Sneaking into the human realm as Danny Fenton he published his books under a Phantom-like nickname, and his saga became strangely popular, to the point where it reached Jason Todd.
Jason for his part was in love with the story, there were some scenarios that were familiar to him, but it didn't really matter, he was strangely excited when he found out that the author would have a book signing in Gotham; no matter how many times Dick called him a book nerd he wasn't going to miss that damn signing.
And if the author and the crime lord fell in love when they saw each other at the signing, that was information for Clockwork to know.
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Just thinking about Bela and Dani and how close they were as kids, only to notice they have the same kind of piercings🥺❤️
AND ALL THREE OF THEM HAD MATCHING NECKLACES IN THE OG DESIGNS
Pardon me while I go SOB
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In love with the idea of captain marvel being Billy's imaginary friend. Like, it'd be so easy. Early depictions had them as almost fully separate people sometimes, like one soul with two minds, rather than just two filters like we mostly see now.
But imagine a Billy down on his luck, hurt and hiding from police and criminals alike, daydreaming the hours away as children do, taking inspiration from all the superheroes rising to fame, making little stories to play out his dreams of saving the world with a generic action doll he found while dumpster diving once. Most of the paint's rubbed off.
Red's his favourite colour, his comfiest jumper is a bright ruby even after all the grime and washes. Gold, too, it's shiny and warmer than silver! A hero cape is a must, big and eye catching! And he can fly, of course, like superman, and in his daydreams, when he's sore and frustrated after a long day's grind, his superhero is smart enough and knows all the right words to get the bullies to stop without resorting to fighting.
His superhero fantasy is one he spends a lot of time on, the first one he goes for when struggling to sleep at night, and he can picture it so clearly. Captain marvel is big and bright and kind, strong enough to lift the boxes for the old lady up the road who's moving all by himself, fast enough to catch Jamie who fell out of the tree on Saturday and broke his leg and couldn't come to class for weeks. He appears at the entrance to alleys when Billy is cornered, he steps up behind to cover for him when he gets caught shoplifting, he sits at the bus stop with him when it's pouring rain and the right bus doesn't seem to be coming.
And then the wizard comes, or rather whisks him away, and like a magician from a fairytale breathes life into his imaginary friend until Billy feels thrice his size and a million times more invincible.
From then on, captain marvel is a real hero, just like Billy is a real boy, and as one they save the whole city, and then the whole world, and get cats down from trees and help Mrs Victoria move the last of her boxes and she gives them a pinch in the cheek and cookies for the road and sometimes it hurts but it's so much better than he imagined.
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personally i think carlos girls should be more dramatic about all this. wdym your beloved driver the only non-rbr race winner of the 2023 season might very well be out of a seat next year. if this had happened to lando i would be on national tv and you KNOW if ferrari dared do this to charles there would be riots flooding the streets of maranello. the lecfosi would go all french revolution with their pitchforks and torches and guillotines chanting for the head of the bald team principal whose name i forget. “don’t be dramatic it’s not like he’s DYING” have you MET sports fans. what are we if not melodramatic and overemotional over our favs??? i say go further
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A silver mounted George III cartwheel penny vesta case, the coin 1797, with hinged cover and suspension loop, unmarked. 4.4cm diameter
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FOR A BEAT OF HEART, THE BREATH IS SHOT.
AND WITHIN A BREATH, THE HEART IS CAUGHT.
THE PIPES ARE BURSTING, UNDER GREAT STRESS,
BOLTS TORN ASUNDER, MAKING A MESS.
A FINAL COUGH, A FINAL RETCH,
A GOREY SLOUGH, CLAIMED BY WRETCH.
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scooby doo fanart in the year of our lord 2024? more likely than you’d think
(ref under cut)
obsessed with this screenshot
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