Usually if
I find antiques or near antiques at all they are broken or damaged. Like this
old chalkboard with abacus I picked up last summer. Still I believed it was
worth rescuing and my buyer certainly did too. He was a very friendly guy who
confirmed my idea that it was from the 1920-s and told me that judging by the
walnut it’s made of was used as an educational toy for higher class children. Curiously
I asked him what he was going to do with it and he said it would end up as a
picture frame. Quite original!
Unfortunately
he lived in another town and asked me to ship it. I was pretty worried about
that but in the end it all worked out. First I had to find protective wrapping.
Being out of bubble plastic I used several layers of this thin isolation foam. That
roll was huge and this is what’s left. An old pick waiting to be used, glad I
had it, glad I got rid of the bulk.
So far so
good. But then I had to cut open a large box and fold the cardboard around the
thing (his idea). I cost me a lot of sweat and almost half a roll of tape to
stick it all together, but the man paid extra for packing that so it was all
covered.
Then to get
the enormous packet over to the post office I dug up my plastic hand truck.
Next day I
received an email saying the abacus arrived in good shape with compliments on
my wrapping. Despite the effort and sweat thinking of the transaction still
brings a smile to my face.
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