Antique Apparatus Enthusiasts Gifts

The Aestetico-Neuralgicon- An Aid to Delivery of Inhaled Medicines

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

Antiques

Roasted

Auctioneer: 'Sold to the lady whose husband just walked out!'

Reluctantly, Indiana Jones reaches for the true cup of Christ.

The Uses of a Stethoscope

"Now we're leaving the hall of stuff we stole from other cultures and entering the hall of stuff we paid too much for."

Books of Tablets

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Obsolete: Any piece of machinery that you bought last week for $100,000.

The Old Curiosity Shop

Antique silver

"I've up cycled your Chippendale!"

"Your steak's prepared in the firebox of a 17th century tank engine - unfortunately sir, the chef can't confirm if it has 0-60T wheel arrangement or not."

'I'm afraid my husband will stop loving me as I get older.' - 'Mine would never do that with me. You know why, don't you. He's an antique dealer.'

I brake for anything discarded that I can bring to the antiques roadshow.

An old-fashioned printer using an Albion press.

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

'Now we come to what it would have been worth'

'Don't even think about it, Walter.'

"And what do you think my husband is worth?"

"If you get that vase, I get this bearded lamp."

"Well, Emmeline, what's new?"

Antique Ailments

"We'll be performing the operation using original instruments."

"I'm a hunter-gatherer-hoarder."

Used Clothing, Antiques, Second Hand Smoke.

Are you bidding Mrs Bixler, or are you berating Mr. Bixler again?'

Ski Vagaries in Switzerland

A Paper Shredder Prototype.

It's a "Franklin"stove. It's made of iron and heats things much better than a fireplace does. Great! Let's put the kettle to the metal!

'What am I bid for these genuine Queen Anne legs?'