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Sapling
This interesting item cropped up in today's news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-63678138
It strikes a chord with me because, as an apprentice to an electrician strangling wires in houses in the early '60s, he often used to tuck his Daily Mirror down the wall cavity.
Years later, doing up an older house of my own, I found some unusual 1920's fag packets.
Again, looking at the back of a Victorian corner-cabinet in a junk shop, I spotted some pencil marks that resembled a name, but too far gone to be legible, then I realised that there were other chisel and saw marks where the the maker had built his 'rod' into the back...... waste-not etc.
Years later, I have been making my own stuff, sometimes for me, sometimes for sale, I always sign my name and the date somewhere deep inside... out of sight.
Latterly, in bigger pieces, I include a coin with the year's date inside one of the joints, not to be seen until a re-glue........or it's sitting in the embers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-63678138
It strikes a chord with me because, as an apprentice to an electrician strangling wires in houses in the early '60s, he often used to tuck his Daily Mirror down the wall cavity.
Years later, doing up an older house of my own, I found some unusual 1920's fag packets.
Again, looking at the back of a Victorian corner-cabinet in a junk shop, I spotted some pencil marks that resembled a name, but too far gone to be legible, then I realised that there were other chisel and saw marks where the the maker had built his 'rod' into the back...... waste-not etc.
Years later, I have been making my own stuff, sometimes for me, sometimes for sale, I always sign my name and the date somewhere deep inside... out of sight.
Latterly, in bigger pieces, I include a coin with the year's date inside one of the joints, not to be seen until a re-glue........or it's sitting in the embers.
