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  1. blakeyboy
    Remember when you had labels for instructing record shop staff on the back of the LP? This should have a label saying 'File under Comedy'.....:-)
  2. blakeyboy
    This is almost worthy of an entry in the 'Nothing to do with coins' area.....:-)
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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154549134972?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=35abe440378d45b9acb1cdaadfb1c880&bu=43180605943&ut=RU&osub=-1~1&crd=20210729093648&segname=11021&sojTags=ch%3Dch%2Cbu%3Dbu%2Cut%3Dut%2Cosub%3Dosub%2Ccrd%3Dcrd%2Csegname%3Dsegname%2Cchnl%3Dmkcid
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  4. blakeyboy
    Yes, I think you are right ( I've alerted the media) but it's the coincidental change of style that intrigues me...
  5. blakeyboy
    Yes, maybe, depending on wear ( any open 3 pennies around in that condition? ) but I do think it's a strange coincidence - that 3 appearing in a new style, and a very few pennies being done the same....
  6. blakeyboy
    Oh yes- foreign stuff...forgot about that. It does seem odd that this style of 3 pops up on two coins at once....
  7. blakeyboy
    Is it just me, or are the '3's' in the 1903 open 3 penny and the 1903 florin very similar? If any member has an example of both, it may be worth measuring the size of the '3', and if they are the same size, it's not beyond imagination that the open 3 penny occurred because someone picked up the florin punch by mistake? If this has been discussed before, apologies- this idea just occurred to me, and I can't find it in a search of the site.....
  8. blakeyboy
    I've been meaning to go to Powis Castle for years and years and still haven't....
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    1905 Halfcrown

    blakeyboy replied to mick1271's topic in Wanted

    It looks like you have two different chemical processes going on anyway....you have the greying, but also that greenish finish on the neck and behind the head. I have a feeling that one will remain and stand out unpleasantly. I would go as far as a brush with soap, or maybe a solvent, but no dipping.....
  10. blakeyboy
    That dentist looked down in the mouth about the Covid situation, still, if they work hard and become famous, they may earn a Blue Plaque.
  11. blakeyboy
    A couple of weeks ago I watched a programme about Mel Brooks- ancient now, and still loud, and nutty as a fruit cake. Then they showed Blazing Saddles. So refreshing. More of that type of anti-racist stuff please.
  12. blakeyboy
    Yes. That's why I mentioned it. Caused giggles in the '70's when racist humour was all the rage.
  13. blakeyboy
    I'll stop you going to them Youth Clubs.....
  14. blakeyboy
    Wow - well spotted!!! 10 points. It's odd- no obvious shill bidding, a mix of bidders, the back on ebay at a buy it now...... what's going on?
  15. blakeyboy
    Ban 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' !!! Madness.
  16. blakeyboy
    This has just sold for £797. I can't find anything about it- I can't find it in Krause. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/China-1926-20-cent-Dragon-amp-Phoenix-ref-HRC-16-/284351166847?hash=item4234a6797f%3Ag%3AJ8cAAOSwRIlg2f8i&nma=true&si=vmD7EGpQa9qpEyRVsfXWdWanlsw%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Is this a fake? just a token?
  17. blakeyboy
    .....I've dropped me orange......
  18. blakeyboy
    Their ads are excoriating. Such overpriced tat, a mock 'official' mint, and poor idiots 'investing'.....makes the Franklin Mint look like Walt Disney.....
  19. blakeyboy
    Is that a Gin Palace in the distance?
  20. blakeyboy
    Ah yes- but has your, what sounds like a North facing front garden, got a big sky? Our friend has a newish farmhouse, and the back is North facing, but huge sky. It's amazing what does well there - sun-loving stuff I struggle with in my small south-facing back garden. Big big sky makes things so much easier.
  21. blakeyboy
    What I find with a 'disappointing' wet month in early summer is the spin-off, if you have a small garden where plants often struggle for light: in a cloudy month, the light levels are lower, but the light is diffused, so it gets into the dark corners, where direct sun never would. Consequently, all the edges and underplanting that frame a garden come to life and shows off for once. This year is their time.
  22. blakeyboy
    My favourite Canna: 'Shenandoah'. Queen Victoria's favourite as well. Great dark leaves, but you can _never_ capture with a camera just how unusual and captivating the pink hue is- nothing else like it. A bugger to grow- needs heat- you can lose one to a cold spell at the drop of a hat.
  23. blakeyboy
    Pictures please! Mines gone mad:
  24. blakeyboy
    I think there should be paulo minus colloquil because I'm omnimus commotus.....
  25. blakeyboy
    Cor confractus deversorium.
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