Old Tins.

[DAPPH]

That's the ticket ?

 

[Chillitt]

That's the ticket ?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

From your loft?

 

[Olderisbetter]

I still find Blakeys segs in the odd box of dads old stuff or a football stud made from layers of leather.

 

[DAPPH]

The ancient leather studs must be worth something to a football memorabilia maniac , possibly more than a tenner each on eBay type sites .


They bring back horrible memories to me , I have just recalled in my head for the first time in 65 years me screaming blue murder ..... My brother was re-studding his boots and as a four year old I happened to walk on to some extracted studs that he'd dropped on the kitchen floor that all landed nails up (whilst in my socks ) .

 

[Olderisbetter]

The ancient leather studs must be worth something to a football memorabilia maniac , possibly more than a tenner each on eBay type sites .


They bring back horrible memories to me , I have just recalled in my head for the first time in 65 years me screaming blue murder ..... My brother was re-studding his boots and as a four year old I happened to walk on to some extracted studs that he'd dropped on the kitchen floor & they landed nails up (whilst in my socks ) .

The nails my dad used were square cut and sharp and the nails hanging out of the leather studs are the same, I may give them to a museum as i like to think that back in the day when a footballer worked in a factory all week and drank beer and lived on fish and chips my dad and grandad repaired their boots as they only got paid peanuts and played on Saturday after a mornings work, The glory was scoring a goal and being popular and i wont name names but a player who was in the Wolverhampton wanderers team around 1920s never made much money but he had plenty of kids by many women.

 

[DAPPH]

The first football transfer fee was several used wriggly tin sheets to repair the sellers changing pavilion shed .

" I won't name names but a player who was in the Wolverhampton wanderers team around 1920s never made much money but he had plenty of kids by many women.

Is that what's meant then they say he'd scored ?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Blakeys segs

Ahhh, segs! What memories - as kids we used to have them fitted to our shoes by my Dad. It's amazing how many sparks you can produce by scuffing your heels sharply on the pavement while walking, doesn't work on tarmac'd surfaces though.

 

[Olderisbetter]

Ahhh, segs! What memories - as kids we used to have them fitted to our shoes by my day. It's amazing how many sparks you can produce by scuffing your heels sharply on the pavement while walking. doesn't work on tarmac'd surfaces though.

As my dad was a cobbler i had new heels fitted on all my worn shoes with 1/4 iron tips in the new heel, Sparks were amazing on a bike in the dark when you heeled down on a corner.
https://www.charlesbirch.com/c-15-14-steel-heels.aspx

 

[slim_boy_fat]

As my dad was a cobbler

An Uncle through marriage was also a cobbler, and I recall him saying in his retirement "NEVER buy shoes from DE Shoes" or Dundee Equitable as it would have been back then.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Hot soapy water did clean a lot of the dirt off.

But it has highlighted the rust and the roughness off it.

Would a mild de-ruster help?

 

[Olderisbetter]

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Hot soapy water did clean a lot of the dirt off.

But it has highlighted the rust and the roughness off it.

Would a mild de-ruster help?

It would look good with a coat of wax and just live with the patina.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Good news, everyone.

I have finished a tin restoration.



Cut throat Razor Stone.
This is how I got the tin.

But a state in a de-rusting tank, a polish with a scotch-brite pad. Then a few coats of hot wax and buffed up.



The holes I am leaving, part off the history.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

The rest are on going.
They are as good as I can get them, with out loosing the details on them.

 

[magnet]

Years ago i was working at Manderston house in the Scottish borders putting a tennis court in. The house is owned by the Palmer family, the palmer of Huntley and Palmer of biscuit fame. They had a museum of biscuit tins going way back. In a quiet moment i went and had a look, works of art some of them as i remember.

 

[cheb]

A chap called Opie has/had a museum of packaging.

https://www.museumofbrands.com/time-tunnel/

 

[fizzy]

Talking of old tins a few years ago I was clearing out our garage. I find a big Nescafe coffee tin. It was very heavy. I thought it was full of nuts and bolts - nope it was sugar! I then remembered in the late 70s my mother and grandmother hoarding sugar. Not because of a pandemic but the state of things in the 70s!

 

[Seadog]

Years ago i was working at Manderston house in the Scottish borders putting a tennis court in. The house is owned by the Palmer family, the palmer of Huntley and Palmer of biscuit fame. They had a museum of biscuit tins going way back. In a quiet moment i went and had a look, works of art some of them as i remember.

Reading museum has a fair collection, too. But then H&P were based there.