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[Blak bart]

French's mustard I think. A bahama diver.

 

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[bill from lachine]

Bart,

Sounds about right....

 

[BC1969]

No political correctness here!
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[Duckshot]

Heres Some lignume vitae wood. It's as hard as iron and was used for dead eyes and pullies on old sailing ships.View attachment 1684087 they buy this wood by the pound....its expensive !!

I heard of that. You don't even have to oil it like teak needs , and it is 100% maintenance free...

...until some Sally want it's painted. That's almost as stupid as painting a brick wall.

 

[releventchair]

Whoooooo!

Back from a friends poker party. (No Tom , poker; not poke ...)
Free beer and munchies and I didn't even gamble. Well ,maybe a little on the way home driving the golf cart on ice in the rain.

Trying to behave like no big deal , and then laughing at some of these posts....

 

[Nitric]

Dog for sell

OHH Bad memories!!(Good too)......I had a black lab mix that did this to our doors. That dog had the door knobs chewed and dented. We left him in our car one night for about an hour. We were travaling and ran into a truck stop to eat. We came out to a shredded interior!!!!!! It was a 92 buick century. He destroyed the interior!!The seats had all the foam ripped out, Door handles, etc..... That was one of the worst dogs I've ever had as far as destruction..But the best behaved when people around. He just had "separation anxiety" or something. The bottom of our doors in the house looked like that pic. haha

 

[Nitric]

Ohhh...and BC..They did make solid gold zippo's. It's been so long since I've actually had one in my hand I can't tell you where to look for the mark. There may be a serial number list somewhere too? I may be dreaming this...but I think some of the marks are kind of hidden...Inside, or on the back below the hinge? I kind of remember(and my memory sucks) having to really look for it on some of them. And I think it was just a little 18k or 14k mark.

2 quick ways to tell if you can't find the mark or if you don't want to file and acid check...sometimes takes a little experience to get use to, but if it's in your hands to play with you will see what I mean.

1. is to pull the inside out and touch the outer case to your cheek without the guts. If gold? it will get warm real fast. Gold transfers heat instantly. It's a great conductor(?) of heat. Brass and other metal take longer to warm up.
2. pull the inside out and open and shut the lid by giving the case a little fling. Gold will make a different sound than usual. Brass has kind of a tingy(?) sound where gold has more of a deeper tone..Like lead..Especially 18k. It may be a little harder to tell with 14k...but still a different sound.

Same thing works with pocket watches and bigger gold items. At one point I got good enough to tell by color and feel from handling and testing so much...But...I'm rusty!! Other than my wifes little bit of jewelry, There isn't any Gold around anymore...haha

I really can't tell by pics..Your dragon may even be 8k(?)...There were some odd K that we usually don't hear much about I thin 6k was another one.. My bigger mistakes in life was scrapping 24k and 18k items that were hall marked. I was just a metal dealer, I didn't have much of a clue of what I was scrapping. UGGHHHH I can only imagine!!! Some of it was cool looking stuff. But our main goal was to flip money and the thing I knew was metals...not the antique part. too well.. Wish I would have hung onto some of that stuff now! Or at least took some pics.

And since I'm bored and rambling about the subject.....I have found gold items that other people have passed over or said "fake,plated,Gold doesn't tarnish, etc...". Because the solder joints will sometimes show green and people assume the whole item isn't solid. Pocket watches were good for this because of the solder joints on hinges. I bought an 18k pocket watch for something like $35 because it was brown almost black. The seller assumed it was fake. I polished and sold it the next day for $200 and something(don't remember the amount, somewhere around there), which was a little less than the scrap value( 3 to 4 hundred spot at that time), but it was to a friend and I made plenty off of it within a couple hours. Chains and other items will tarnish for whatever reason, even 18k. There is also a ton of stuff out there marked that isn't real too! Of all time periods. So, watch out for that stuff when out looking.

 

[kcm]

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Buddy, you mean for sure monowoodic! "Lithic" means stone........... NOT WOOD!

Monolithic has several definitions. Word was used correctly/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monolithic

 

[RTR]

Any of you guys have a clue ? In The bottom left (classification box). NASCAR Jimmie Johnson/pas is typed in.How & why ? Its not the plate # as that box is in the top left.View attachment 1683925

Research on the registration has led to Jimmy Johnsons shop in NC.
AKA Hendrick Motorsport >> https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=jimmie+johnsons++race+shop+in+NC.

 

[bill from lachine]

Folks,

Top of the morning to the crew.

 

[bill from lachine]

Folks,

How would you like to find something like this metal detecting.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/whitst...struck-gold-it-s-like-winning-lottery-198917/

 

[BC1969]

Ohhh...and BC..They did make solid gold zippo's. It's been so long since I've actually had one in my hand I can't tell you where to look for the mark. There may be a serial number list somewhere too? I may be dreaming this...but I think some of the marks are kind of hidden...Inside, or on the back below the hinge? I kind of remember(and my memory sucks) having to really look for it on some of them. And I think it was just a little 18k or 14k mark.

2 quick ways to tell if you can't find the mark or if you don't want to file and acid check...sometimes takes a little experience to get use to, but if it's in your hands to play with you will see what I mean.

1. is to pull the inside out and touch the outer case to your cheek without the guts. If gold? it will get warm real fast. Gold transfers heat instantly. It's a great conductor(?) of heat. Brass and other metal take longer to warm up.
2. pull the inside out and open and shut the lid by giving the case a little fling. Gold will make a different sound than usual. Brass has kind of a tingy(?) sound where gold has more of a deeper tone..Like lead..Especially 18k. It may be a little harder to tell with 14k...but still a different sound.

Same thing works with pocket watches and bigger gold items. At one point I got good enough to tell by color and feel from handling and testing so much...But...I'm rusty!! Other than my wifes little bit of jewelry, There isn't any Gold around anymore...haha

I really can't tell by pics..Your dragon may even be 8k(?)...There were some odd K that we usually don't hear much about I thin 6k was another one.. My bigger mistakes in life was scrapping 24k and 18k items that were hall marked. I was just a metal dealer, I didn't have much of a clue of what I was scrapping. UGGHHHH I can only imagine!!! Some of it was cool looking stuff. But our main goal was to flip money and the thing I knew was metals...not the antique part. too well.. Wish I would have hung onto some of that stuff now! Or at least took some pics.

And since I'm bored and rambling about the subject.....I have found gold items that other people have passed over or said "fake,plated,Gold doesn't tarnish, etc...". Because the solder joints will sometimes show green and people assume the whole item isn't solid. Pocket watches were good for this because of the solder joints on hinges. I bought an 18k pocket watch for something like $35 because it was brown almost black. The seller assumed it was fake. I polished and sold it the next day for $200 and something(don't remember the amount, somewhere around there), which was a little less than the scrap value( 3 to 4 hundred spot at that time), but it was to a friend and I made plenty off of it within a couple hours. Chains and other items will tarnish for whatever reason, even 18k. There is also a ton of stuff out there marked that isn't real too! Of all time periods. So, watch out for that stuff when out looking.

Good morning.
Thank you for all the information.
There looks like a mark inside by the hinge, but I can't see it.
Maybe after some java.
It did warm up quite quick on my cheek.
That's a new one for myself.
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[bill from lachine]

Mike,

Well by looking at it closely I can make out a K mark on the left of the zippo and what appears to be the Roman numerals V11 on the right which would be 7 so does that denote 7k gold or possibly 7% gold plating by weight not sure one way or the other.

 

[bill from lachine]

Folks,

An interesting video about Celtic money.

 

[Tom_Restorer]

Morning Friends.

Mike, git an answer from my dealer friend!

It is a Dragon Champlevé from first half of the 20th century.

 

[ARC]

Morn.. bbl

 

[BC1969]

Thank your friend for me!
It is mass produced I take it.

 

[bill from lachine]

Morning AARC, Tom, Mike and anyone else lurking about....

 

[Tom_Restorer]

No political correctness here!

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Mike, what is this box for ?

 

[Tom_Restorer]

Whoooooo!

Back from a friends poker party. (No Tom , poker; not poke ...)
Free beer and munchies and I didn't even gamble. Well ,maybe a little on the way home driving the golf cart on ice in the rain.

Trying to behave like no big deal , and then laughing at some of these posts....

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"(No Tom , poker; not poke ...)"


....guess it end up in a poke party if you played strip poker with your friends....


LOL