29-10-2018, 07:14 AM
Hi Tony B
Your posts gems as usual.
Unlike motor bikes, old American cars fetch surprisingly little on American Pickers; the funeral coach seems expensive esp if not actually a hearse. I wonder if it emptied the oil bottles on the way there.
Mike and Frank make good TV. Know their stuff and normal people of human proportions, unlike many TV Americans, but there is an army behind the scenes. Danielle must be their best find although doubt if she ever actually sells anything. And the premises seems primarily a prop. Prices paid are astonishing and the mark up modest. For all the running around they would lose if paid to take most of it away.
The eccentric old codgers and their junk are perturbing.....
The “Brewster” type of styling only lasted a year or two generally about 1933 and was branded "potato digger"; I have not seen any picture so extreme. Some bland rounded styling of the late 40s was labelled "cake of soap".
Do all the old English signs also have bullet holes? The bicycle sign looks to be very early 20th century. Can you date? I am surprised that tins are so collected. Unless kept in very dry conditions all rust sooner or later.
The brake drums of the Bantam curious.
Your posts gems as usual.
Unlike motor bikes, old American cars fetch surprisingly little on American Pickers; the funeral coach seems expensive esp if not actually a hearse. I wonder if it emptied the oil bottles on the way there.
Mike and Frank make good TV. Know their stuff and normal people of human proportions, unlike many TV Americans, but there is an army behind the scenes. Danielle must be their best find although doubt if she ever actually sells anything. And the premises seems primarily a prop. Prices paid are astonishing and the mark up modest. For all the running around they would lose if paid to take most of it away.
The eccentric old codgers and their junk are perturbing.....
The “Brewster” type of styling only lasted a year or two generally about 1933 and was branded "potato digger"; I have not seen any picture so extreme. Some bland rounded styling of the late 40s was labelled "cake of soap".
Do all the old English signs also have bullet holes? The bicycle sign looks to be very early 20th century. Can you date? I am surprised that tins are so collected. Unless kept in very dry conditions all rust sooner or later.
The brake drums of the Bantam curious.