About a hundred years ago - well 2007 to be exact - I wrote and self-published a guidebook called Collect Ireland . No sooner published than it was...
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Haven’t passed by in a while so no idea if it is still there, but there was a quirky little shop in Annamoe, Co Wicklow that I stopped in a few times...
I have a friend who swears that FB Marketplace is the place to be and, in fairness to him, he buys and sells a lot on it but as for me - this is what...
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Distilling the contents, not after an incident I had in a lab of an oil refinery....
It was my work placement when in college. I was young, eager...
Things have been in the doldrums since March 2020 but there are signs of things gradually picking up again. In Derry there's a regular Vintage Fair -...
A 1930's (?) sketchbook with 27 colour and pen + ink sketches for just £40 including delivery. Only seven were shown in the listing so I'm gambling...
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Cheating again but I only received this impulse purchase today despite having won it at auction in February 2018! All down to the auctioneers in Cork...
I started collecting artist postcards of Irish scenes a few years ago inspired by the work of the British artist Walter Hayward Young (1868-1920)....
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Another mercy purchase this morning - a pre 1907, untitled, unsigned and unposted card. A massive outlay, £1.49 including p+p, but I felt it deserved...
I found this in one of my fields. I used to have a metal detector years ago and would get great excitement out of hearing the buzz of it. Usually it...
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the ingredients were stated as the following - The 'Poor Man's Friend' ointment consists mainly of lard and fine English beeswax, plus calamel, sugar...
I have a set of programs mostly ballet/music from 1940's London and then Dublin in 1950's mostly Gate Theatre. Would anyone collect these? It seems a...
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I heard back from Gate and yes they would like them so thank you Mountain
Probably due to my misspent youth in the many amusement arcades in 1960s Bray I have always had a fascination for what would these days be described...
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I suspect they are available because of the level and tolerance of smoking in China and third world countries?
Years ago I used to collect Irish railwayana in a big way but these days my collection is largely gone. I still dabble for monetary gain rather than...
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Truly eye-watering prices paid for Irish railwayana at Purcell's (Birr) auction today. Staff machines all reaching four figures, some surprisingly...
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