Topic: Swizzle sticks Umbrellas vaseline handle

[Coupsdestylo]

Hi Kevin, sorry I didn't realise they were restrictive with their content. Um what's the normal method of sharing images here? the file size restrictions are a headache.
This link does not require any registration https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bxnk6H_ETbICb3ZhNXcyRWhNQ2s&usp=sharing
 

[KevinH]

Hi Dominic,

That latest link works ok. Thanks.

The preferred method of sharing images is by uploading them to the Board as part of a post. As well as avoiding "unfriendly" sites it means that the photos will remain in the Board and will not be subject to the "disappearing images" syndrome that lots of 3rd party hosting sites tend to suffer from.

The image Kb size limit for the Board (250Kb per image) is quite easy to work with by using some simple changes to pixel sizes (width & height) and perhaps some optimising. Generally if an image is set to a longest measurement of 700 pixels, it will be within the Board Kb limits, but this depends on the amount of detail in the photo. Fortunately, we have come up with some guidance:

In our Board Info, Help & Announcements forum, there is a thread on resing images: TECHIE TIPS: Resizing images to fit the board

My personal recommendation is to use: http://www.picresize.com/ which is a free routine and works in easy stages and produces very good results.

In connection with shared images, please also see our Guidelines on: ADMIN: Using Copyright Material

[chopin-liszt]

I've found pics of my sticks and the box.
Thanks for your message, Dominic, but putting them here is better - everybody can see them then.
I can still send you copies of the images if you want, though.

[Coupsdestylo]

Hi Sue, thanks I can see them great here (it's quite impressive the quality you can get in such a small size file).
They are better than average, most likely from Lauscha in Germany (possibly Czech), probably mid century.
Dom

[chopin-liszt]

 
You seem to have some knowledge of these things - have you any idea if the price written on my box is in any way realistic?
It has always struck me as being quite shockingly expensive.

[Coupsdestylo]

Hi Sue, I collect vintage cocktail shakers and some other barware, My passion is the glass umbrellas which are a subset of these types of cocktail stick, I come across a few in my hunting :-)
Values I'm not sure, in the 30's USA they'd sell for about 8-25 cents each, cockerels a $ a dozen  a cheap glass shaker and glass set from the same period would be 99c.
I'm not sure with imperial prices, but there's always a dealer willing to drop a zero on something, I doubt human nature has changed significantly.
Dom

[chopin-liszt]

I'm clueless about american currency. But I do remember imperial from the '60s.
9 shillings might have been a week's wages around then, or not long before.

9d (3.75p) might have made more sense than 9/- (45p)

[KevinH]

Using a couple of website calculators based on rates of inflation  ...

9 shillings UK in 1960 equates to £9.45 in today's money
in 1965 it equates to £8.24 today
in 1970 it equates to £6.27 today

And those figures closely tie in with the inflation of US$ for which the exchange rate was about US$2.8 per £1 for 1960 & 1965 and $2.4 per £1 in 1970.

So, yes, about a week's earnings for many people in the 1960s. Anyone in the UK earning £1,000+ (gross income) a year was regarded as very wealthy.

[chopin-liszt]

I seem to remember a Jobling Lambton Rose bowl cost about a month's wages new, 29/6 (or something very similar).
But I do suspect there might be something wrong about the mark on my box.
Perhpas it was for a boxful of boxes of them, and just this box had the total written on?
I bought them mostly for the curiosity of the price on the box. I do think it strange.

[flying free]

These are mine
The flower was two flowers and two leaves (broke the others) and came in it's own little glass pot - given as a new present in 1984.
I bought the elephants new in Oxford Street in London I think also in 1984 and I'm sure they said Murano glass on them at the time?
They are blush pink with a white line of glass internally that goes right down the bottom of the clear stick.

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