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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Old Statue with Signature

« on: October 10, 2012, 12:08:49 am »

i think dialup these days is better than dialup in the old days... they use compression to get better than 56k... and actually i had to work on a dos computer recently... it was a blast from the past... like back in the days of text based computer games...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: antiques need identified please!

« on: October 09, 2012, 07:24:11 pm »

do you think there's a reason for the spidery attachment at the top instead of a simple loop? utility or decoration?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Little Roll Top Desk and Chair Value

« on: October 09, 2012, 07:17:35 pm »

Bigwull, it requires very, very little horsepower to move a 75 kilogram (165.3 lbs) mass parallel to the earth’s surface ….. thus the batteries in electric vehicles do a pretty good job at getting “flatlanders” where ever they want to go ….. and back again.

A vehicle’s MPG is calculated on “flatland” driving.

But now Bigwull, it requires one (1) horsepower of energy (745.7 watts) to raise a 75 kilograms (165.3 lbs) mass perpendicular to the earth’s surface, ….. against the earth's gravitational force, …. over a distance of one (1) meter (3.3 ft) in one (1) second. Or in one (1) hour or one (1) day, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you stand up real quick like or you take ½ hour to stand up, it still requires the same amount of energy to overcome the force of gravity.   

The Nissan Leaf weighs 1,521 kg (3,354 lb) which means it requires a ell of a lot of energy when driving it in hilly or mountainous terrain. More energy than its batteries could possibly supply. Thus a totally electric vehicle would be SOL.

well there are other options for personal transport... ebikes are actually amazingly adept at going up hills... admittedly their load is much lower... but with the advances in lightweight building materials and more powerful and cheaper batteries... I could see us going electric in the near future for in-city driving at least... offroading will likely always be a high horsepower thing...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Old Statue with Signature

« on: October 09, 2012, 06:59:45 pm »

Is there any way of getting a better/close pic of that signature... it looks like theres some glare...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Mysterious $5 find- Some kind of persian/asian vase??

« on: October 09, 2012, 04:58:23 pm »

the script looks extremely similar to tibetan... which fits better with the oriental pictures that are on the painting...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Worlds' smallest revolver

« on: September 13, 2012, 10:40:36 pm »

basically... it shoots 2mm rounds which are hardly deadly under any circumstances...

the kit that fancypants have has a flare attachment... so the 2mm round powers the 9mm flare... which are actually relatively significant...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Need help identifying a coffee/tea set

« on: September 13, 2012, 10:31:59 pm »

That translates readily with google translate to:

Beautiful Plate/Porcelain Fountain
"LIMOGES"
 
  Perfect State
 
Is decorated by:
Lanscape with characters and flowers
  Excellent Color
Gold filigree
37 CM LONG
28.5 CM WIDE

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Photo's are important! (info on loading pictures)

« on: September 13, 2012, 09:01:39 pm »

imgur.com is my go-to image uploader... you don't need an account and can set it to auto resize...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Worlds' smallest revolver

« on: September 13, 2012, 09:00:15 pm »

I think they are still being manufactured... since they are readily available... this particular model kit started in the 1970's I beleive...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: information on large bronze please.

« on: September 13, 2012, 08:53:06 pm »

oz? nz?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help, Chinese experts? chinese Bowl... Cant figure out if this is new or old?

« on: September 11, 2012, 03:30:26 pm »

Most chinese "antiques" are clever replicas...

The characters are 有由浇 I beleive... though it could be 有田浇... but it makes less sense...

It means "poured" or "cast" but I don't know if thats a makers mark or just a descriptive term like we would mark "tin over brass" in english...

The picture of the white flower on the inside is a lotus... very common figure in chinese culture...

I'm not even close to knowledgeable about chinese porcelain... but yours doesn't seem to indicate a lot of age other than the style... there's no visible crackling, no discoloration... so if I had to guess its probably a fairly recent reproduction...

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Old Dutch Identification (with fingerprint)

« on: September 11, 2012, 12:30:52 pm »

Thanks sapphire and kevin... very cool

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Old Dutch Identification (with fingerprint)

« on: September 10, 2012, 11:07:24 pm »

yeah I did the translation but because a lot of the words are wrongly spelt (hard to read)... the translation isn't much help... it alludes to the fact that this is ID of some kind... but I was wondering if this is passport style... or something imposed for nazi occupation? and what the possible value of it is... is there many around from this era?

thanks though

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Antique Questions Forum / Old Dutch Identification (with fingerprint)

« on: September 10, 2012, 07:51:03 pm »

Hey all... I'm new to the forum... and having a bit of trouble finding information on this piece of paperwork...

I think its basically an ID card from the 1920's but I can't read dutch so I can't really tell what it is...

Its got a picture and fingerprint... and a bit of information on it... one side reads:

"2e exemplaar
Departement van binnenlandsche zaken
persoonsbewijs

de tot het bezit van dit bewijs gertechtigde is verpilcht het te alten tijde bij zich te dragen en desgevorderd te vertoonen aan lederen opsporingsambrenant alsmede aan ahe embtenaren of andere personen door wie zulks ingevolge eenig wettelijk voorsch... wordt verlangd

geldig uedurende uijf jaren

misbruik wordt gestraft"

or something like this... since it is extremely difficult to make anything out...

anyone got a clue what it is/value?