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Ok, the job interview was for a secretarial position at a law firm. They will train to do all the documents and such. Basically, it's a paralegal position, which is awesome. The office manager said they had a lot of applicants and would be interviewing people into next week, that they'd be calling people in for second interviews the following week. So it's now the wait and see game.
Dad took the day off today. After the kids left for school, he says, "Hey, let's go get breakfast and go to Trade Day." So, after a breakfast of pancakes and bacon, we drove about an hour down past Roanoke, just over the Chambers County line, to the flea market. I got loot! Two photographs in excellent condition. Granted, they were overpriced, but the quality was so superb. The man also had an antique wood planer for sale and Dad said, "I tell ya what, you take $20 for this planer and I'll get both the photographs." The man said sure. So, while he paid too much for the photographs for me, he got the planer for a steal. My dad has a great eye for stuff like that and old tools are one of his "things". Turns out, the planer, a Sears & Roebuck model about 130 years old, is a coffin planer worth closer to $80. Go Dad! Hahaha!
When we left the flea market, we took the long way home through the country. Dad initially took the detour to avoid some road construction we had come through on our way down there, but then we took another little detour and just took our time, driving through the country.
One of the photographs is paper on paperboard - a gentleman named Johann Herrmann Fischer, dated 1878, taken in Stassfurt, Germany. The other is a ferreotype (tintype) of a young man named Mr. George Allen, taken on July 4, 1874, in Fulton, NY. Both are MINT. Splee! :D
I wish I could find some information on them. It would be so awesome if Herr Fischer turned out to be related to Emil Fischer.
Well, it's been a long day and 6:00 a.m. comes too soon; therefore, I'm off to bed.
Dad took the day off today. After the kids left for school, he says, "Hey, let's go get breakfast and go to Trade Day." So, after a breakfast of pancakes and bacon, we drove about an hour down past Roanoke, just over the Chambers County line, to the flea market. I got loot! Two photographs in excellent condition. Granted, they were overpriced, but the quality was so superb. The man also had an antique wood planer for sale and Dad said, "I tell ya what, you take $20 for this planer and I'll get both the photographs." The man said sure. So, while he paid too much for the photographs for me, he got the planer for a steal. My dad has a great eye for stuff like that and old tools are one of his "things". Turns out, the planer, a Sears & Roebuck model about 130 years old, is a coffin planer worth closer to $80. Go Dad! Hahaha!
When we left the flea market, we took the long way home through the country. Dad initially took the detour to avoid some road construction we had come through on our way down there, but then we took another little detour and just took our time, driving through the country.
One of the photographs is paper on paperboard - a gentleman named Johann Herrmann Fischer, dated 1878, taken in Stassfurt, Germany. The other is a ferreotype (tintype) of a young man named Mr. George Allen, taken on July 4, 1874, in Fulton, NY. Both are MINT. Splee! :D
I wish I could find some information on them. It would be so awesome if Herr Fischer turned out to be related to Emil Fischer.
Well, it's been a long day and 6:00 a.m. comes too soon; therefore, I'm off to bed.