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Offline Bernard C

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2007, 03:18:12 PM »
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I had not realised it was in use so recently!

More recently than you might think, Frank, as Dicky was not that old — he had attempted to join up at the start of WWII, but was rejected because of his disabilities — not the Great War.   So this puts him a generation nearer today than you may have worked out.

Bernard C.  8)
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2007, 07:14:25 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetterlin
it took me a few days to search for Suetterlin instead of Sütterlin - sorry - but guess you like this  ;)
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2008, 08:13:54 AM »
Has anyone come across any other references to glass sponge holders?   The silence over the last year has been deafening!

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Re: What is it?
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2008, 08:36:22 AM »
Quote from: Bernard C on August 22, 2008, 08:13:54 AM
Has anyone come across any other references to glass sponge holders?   The silence over the last year has been deafening!

Bernard C.  8)

I remember seeing one of these in use too Bernard!  My late father's business was in direct mail/marketing (NOT junk mail before anyone says it - they didn't get involved in consumer mailings just services to other businesses handling and fulfilling their targeted B2B mailing campaigns, member mailings etc).  Anyway, I remember way back to the 1970s when the company was first established and there were a team of ladies all working on various elements of the mailing (all done manually at the time) - one of the ladies at the end of the 'line' had a glass sponge holder which she was using to dampen the envelope flaps - all the other ladies had the more basic plastic and rubber roller types - she had one too but wouldn't use it.  It was larger than the one shown at the top of this thread though but otherwise similar - it was elegant but totally impractical in this instance!
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Re: What is it?
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2008, 11:43:29 AM »
At the risk of 'going off at a tangent' again, (which I am wont to do!) after seeing this thread, I decided to look up 'glass sponge' on eBay!
This is what I found:-  http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VENUS-GLASS-SPONGE-FLOWER-BASKET-Weird-Wedding-gift_W0QQitemZ280258451384QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item280258451384

It would appear that it isn't just humans that are clever at making glass!

Who says the GMB isn't amazingly educational!!

Well, I did say it was off at a tangent. :-[
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