[ARC5] R-45/ARR-7

[AKLDGUY]

It was the same in our day. I remember circa 1960 at the age of about ten,
asking my grandfather what was the leather belt with a handle hanging on
the wall in his workshop. A razor strop was the answer. I had only ever
seen my father shaving with a safety razor. Another ancient relative had an
outside toilet and was still using a chamber pot in 1970 rather than go out
to it at night. As a boy I had wondered why she kept this odd china thing
under her bed instead of in the kitchen but wouldn't explain why. She was
among the last of the Victorians (b. 1884).

Neil ZL1ANM


On Monday, June 18, 2018, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>    I have encountered this with other stuff. My almost wife's family sold
> a house full of antiques in Cape Cod recently. It was hard to sell. Young
> people do not want old stuff. There was a certain market of people of our
> age (old) who have memories but there are getting to be fewer and fewer. I
> think there is also getting to be a lack of appreciation of workmanship.
> The idea now is to get something new that will do the job and toss it when
> it breaks. I suspect that in a century there will not be much left from our
> era. Technology has changed so fast that I suspect that a lot of people
> under about 25 simply have not even heard of things which were a part of
> life for decades for many of us. There is a series of short films on You
> Tube where kids of somewhere between 5 and 12 are introduced to work a day
> objects from the past. Things like dial telephones. They recognize its a
> phone but have no idea of how to use it.
>
> On 6/17/2018 4:01 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>
>> Market values are much lower today, and continue to plummet.   Most of us
>> are reluctant to appreciate how little real value or interest our treasures
>> have in 2018.  Soon our estates will be paying someone big bucks to haul
>> the junk...even uncommon NOS pristine un-hammed unmodified junk...away.
>>
>> One would be very lucky to sell an R-45/ARR-7 for even $100, unless a
>> gullible buyer can be found on ebay.
>>
>> Mike / KK5F
>>
>> --
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
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