Brown Bowler
@brownbowler.bsky.social
Antiques, Art, Museums, Social History, Architecture, Archaeology, Heritage...that sort of thing.
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some cigar box guitars...if you fancy getting one please see my website. www.dirtpie.rocks
January 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
some cigar box guitars...if you fancy getting one please see my website. www.dirtpie.rocks
#AdventCalendar day 25:
A warning to avoid the demon drink at Christmas. Made from a horse vertebrae is this c.1800 folk art 'Wesley bone', a preacher, with the devil's wings rising up behind him...
A warning to avoid the demon drink at Christmas. Made from a horse vertebrae is this c.1800 folk art 'Wesley bone', a preacher, with the devil's wings rising up behind him...
December 25, 2024 at 8:35 AM
#AdventCalendar day 25:
A warning to avoid the demon drink at Christmas. Made from a horse vertebrae is this c.1800 folk art 'Wesley bone', a preacher, with the devil's wings rising up behind him...
A warning to avoid the demon drink at Christmas. Made from a horse vertebrae is this c.1800 folk art 'Wesley bone', a preacher, with the devil's wings rising up behind him...
December 24, 2024 at 8:48 AM
#AdventCalendar day 23:
About to become a bone fide antique, given away by the generous folk at Redmans of Burnley, a 1925 calendar...
About to become a bone fide antique, given away by the generous folk at Redmans of Burnley, a 1925 calendar...
December 23, 2024 at 8:56 AM
#AdventCalendar day 23:
About to become a bone fide antique, given away by the generous folk at Redmans of Burnley, a 1925 calendar...
About to become a bone fide antique, given away by the generous folk at Redmans of Burnley, a 1925 calendar...
#AdventCalender day 22:
Ideal for Christmas overindulgence is this cobalt blue glass pocket sputum flask c.1880 with different ends for filling and emptying...
Ideal for Christmas overindulgence is this cobalt blue glass pocket sputum flask c.1880 with different ends for filling and emptying...
December 22, 2024 at 8:39 AM
#AdventCalender day 22:
Ideal for Christmas overindulgence is this cobalt blue glass pocket sputum flask c.1880 with different ends for filling and emptying...
Ideal for Christmas overindulgence is this cobalt blue glass pocket sputum flask c.1880 with different ends for filling and emptying...
#AdventCalender day 21:
Limited edition plate (3/100) by Calum Colvin featuring Robert Burns and celebrating The McManus Dundee's 150th anniversary in 2017...
Limited edition plate (3/100) by Calum Colvin featuring Robert Burns and celebrating The McManus Dundee's 150th anniversary in 2017...
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 AM
#AdventCalender day 21:
Limited edition plate (3/100) by Calum Colvin featuring Robert Burns and celebrating The McManus Dundee's 150th anniversary in 2017...
Limited edition plate (3/100) by Calum Colvin featuring Robert Burns and celebrating The McManus Dundee's 150th anniversary in 2017...
December 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM
#AdventCalender day 19:
A copy of @baggottsilver.bsky.social's excellent 'The Hawthorn Cross & Other Antiques Ghost Stories'...
A copy of @baggottsilver.bsky.social's excellent 'The Hawthorn Cross & Other Antiques Ghost Stories'...
December 19, 2024 at 8:49 AM
#AdventCalender day 19:
A copy of @baggottsilver.bsky.social's excellent 'The Hawthorn Cross & Other Antiques Ghost Stories'...
A copy of @baggottsilver.bsky.social's excellent 'The Hawthorn Cross & Other Antiques Ghost Stories'...
#AdventCalendar day 18:
Wonder how many of these will be in Christmas stockings this year? 🤔
Victorian wooden spinning top (string not included)...
Wonder how many of these will be in Christmas stockings this year? 🤔
Victorian wooden spinning top (string not included)...
December 18, 2024 at 8:49 AM
#AdventCalendar day 18:
Wonder how many of these will be in Christmas stockings this year? 🤔
Victorian wooden spinning top (string not included)...
Wonder how many of these will be in Christmas stockings this year? 🤔
Victorian wooden spinning top (string not included)...
December 17, 2024 at 8:52 AM
#AdventCalendar day 16:
Detail from the original architect plans for Whalley Lunatic Asylum c1910. The site became operational in 1915 and was first used as a military hospital, Queen Mary's, before opening as intended in 1920...
Detail from the original architect plans for Whalley Lunatic Asylum c1910. The site became operational in 1915 and was first used as a military hospital, Queen Mary's, before opening as intended in 1920...
December 16, 2024 at 8:55 AM
#AdventCalendar day 16:
Detail from the original architect plans for Whalley Lunatic Asylum c1910. The site became operational in 1915 and was first used as a military hospital, Queen Mary's, before opening as intended in 1920...
Detail from the original architect plans for Whalley Lunatic Asylum c1910. The site became operational in 1915 and was first used as a military hospital, Queen Mary's, before opening as intended in 1920...
#AdventCalendar day 15:
A 1950's Attaboy tradesman sale sample trilby hat with case, displayed on a charming modern pottery stand...
A 1950's Attaboy tradesman sale sample trilby hat with case, displayed on a charming modern pottery stand...
December 15, 2024 at 7:35 AM
#AdventCalendar day 15:
A 1950's Attaboy tradesman sale sample trilby hat with case, displayed on a charming modern pottery stand...
A 1950's Attaboy tradesman sale sample trilby hat with case, displayed on a charming modern pottery stand...
#AdventCalendar day 14:
A WW2 home front gas attack warning rattle that became a Burnley football fan's noise maker of choice...
A WW2 home front gas attack warning rattle that became a Burnley football fan's noise maker of choice...
December 14, 2024 at 8:58 AM
#AdventCalendar day 14:
A WW2 home front gas attack warning rattle that became a Burnley football fan's noise maker of choice...
A WW2 home front gas attack warning rattle that became a Burnley football fan's noise maker of choice...
#AdventCalendar day 13:
An articulated figure made by a friend from an aged piece of painted wood found on Crosby beach...
An articulated figure made by a friend from an aged piece of painted wood found on Crosby beach...
December 13, 2024 at 9:01 AM
#AdventCalendar day 13:
An articulated figure made by a friend from an aged piece of painted wood found on Crosby beach...
An articulated figure made by a friend from an aged piece of painted wood found on Crosby beach...
#AdventCalendar day 12:
A mass produced and, in this case hastily made, Sunderland lustre wall plaque. This one c1850 by Garrison or Wear pottery, Sunderland...
A mass produced and, in this case hastily made, Sunderland lustre wall plaque. This one c1850 by Garrison or Wear pottery, Sunderland...
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 AM
#AdventCalendar day 12:
A mass produced and, in this case hastily made, Sunderland lustre wall plaque. This one c1850 by Garrison or Wear pottery, Sunderland...
A mass produced and, in this case hastily made, Sunderland lustre wall plaque. This one c1850 by Garrison or Wear pottery, Sunderland...
December 11, 2024 at 9:24 AM
#AdventCalendar day 10:
From the group of children's clogs is this, the smallest, a Lancashire clog for very small feet indeed...
From the group of children's clogs is this, the smallest, a Lancashire clog for very small feet indeed...
December 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM
#AdventCalendar day 10:
From the group of children's clogs is this, the smallest, a Lancashire clog for very small feet indeed...
From the group of children's clogs is this, the smallest, a Lancashire clog for very small feet indeed...
#AdventCalendar day 9:
An early 19th century oil of boys fighting near church in a frame that purportedly once held a Constable...
An early 19th century oil of boys fighting near church in a frame that purportedly once held a Constable...
December 9, 2024 at 10:17 AM
#AdventCalendar day 9:
An early 19th century oil of boys fighting near church in a frame that purportedly once held a Constable...
An early 19th century oil of boys fighting near church in a frame that purportedly once held a Constable...
#AdventCalendar day 8:
From the wall of manual labourer photographs is this hardy looking group from Cinderford in Gloucestershire...
From the wall of manual labourer photographs is this hardy looking group from Cinderford in Gloucestershire...
December 8, 2024 at 8:45 AM
#AdventCalendar day 8:
From the wall of manual labourer photographs is this hardy looking group from Cinderford in Gloucestershire...
From the wall of manual labourer photographs is this hardy looking group from Cinderford in Gloucestershire...
#AdventCalendar day 7:
A bobbldhead devil under a dome. I will be taking no questions at this time...
A bobbldhead devil under a dome. I will be taking no questions at this time...
December 7, 2024 at 10:08 AM
#AdventCalendar day 7:
A bobbldhead devil under a dome. I will be taking no questions at this time...
A bobbldhead devil under a dome. I will be taking no questions at this time...
December 6, 2024 at 9:58 AM
#AdventCalendar day 5:
Behind the sign lurks the specialist subjects bookshelf. Here's a poor photo of a must have tome for lovers of small antique carved wooden items - Edward Pinto on treen...
Behind the sign lurks the specialist subjects bookshelf. Here's a poor photo of a must have tome for lovers of small antique carved wooden items - Edward Pinto on treen...
December 5, 2024 at 9:41 AM
#AdventCalendar day 5:
Behind the sign lurks the specialist subjects bookshelf. Here's a poor photo of a must have tome for lovers of small antique carved wooden items - Edward Pinto on treen...
Behind the sign lurks the specialist subjects bookshelf. Here's a poor photo of a must have tome for lovers of small antique carved wooden items - Edward Pinto on treen...
December 4, 2024 at 9:51 AM
#AdventCalendar day 3:
A kindly grandma consoles a child over the loss of a dead dog on this c1830 nursery plate...
A kindly grandma consoles a child over the loss of a dead dog on this c1830 nursery plate...
December 3, 2024 at 8:54 AM
#AdventCalendar day 3:
A kindly grandma consoles a child over the loss of a dead dog on this c1830 nursery plate...
A kindly grandma consoles a child over the loss of a dead dog on this c1830 nursery plate...
#AdventCalendar day 2:
Not a great area but underneath the Shriner president's fez lurks a late Victorian tobacco jar in the form of a tree stump...
Not a great area but underneath the Shriner president's fez lurks a late Victorian tobacco jar in the form of a tree stump...
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 AM
#AdventCalendar day 2:
Not a great area but underneath the Shriner president's fez lurks a late Victorian tobacco jar in the form of a tree stump...
Not a great area but underneath the Shriner president's fez lurks a late Victorian tobacco jar in the form of a tree stump...