{"id":24376,"date":"2023-05-26T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=24376"},"modified":"2023-05-26T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:17:07","slug":"episode-825-wht-we-bought-or-bargained-set-sale-may-2023-matthew-bolton-mrtin-budd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=24376","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 825 WHT WE BOUGHT OR BARGAINED..SET SALE MAY 2023 MATTHEW BOLTON, MRTIN BUDD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 825     WHAT WE BOUGHT OR BARGAINED..SET SALE MAY 2023  MATTHEW BOLTON, MRTIN BUDD<\/div>\n

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Some Of our friends are \u2018downsizing\u2019.   Moving from large homes to smaller condominiums or<\/div>\n
apartments.  We are going in the opposite direction\u2026\u2019upsizing\u2019 for the movie industry.  Doubt<\/div>\n
very much that any reader will feel envious.   Some may even be rather shocked.<\/div>\n
In order to upsize for these two five ton truckloads my nephew Robert Skeoch and i spent<\/div>\n
a whole day reducing our collection and hauling a lot of things to the dump.  Some had<\/div>\n
to be rescued later when a movie set wanted things we had decreed superfluous.<\/div>\n

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We have  learned a hard lesson.  We cannot provide al things to all movies.   So our collection comes under the headline of \u2018period\u2019 items.  Some<\/div>\n
things are even abused.  No self respecting movie script seems to want brand new set dressing.  A little or a lot of abuse makes a movie seem real.  Life<\/div>\n
is that way.  Imperfect. Abused by the human hand.  Used .. neglected.  Broken and forgotten.  Such things are valued highly by set buyers.  \u201cThere<\/div>\n
is no fake aging process that replicates the ravage of time.\u201d  Painters and carpenters can do a good job making a brand new chair and table look old<\/div>\n
and abused. But time and neglect do a better job.<\/div>\n

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A n obsolete three furrow plow abandoned in a fence row for half a century cannot look shiny and fit for the showroom floor. A crate which is supposed to<\/div>\n
be weathered and broken cannot show the new heads of Robertson screws.  Get the idea?<\/div>\n

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The cast iron machine on the left looked good to me.  I have no idea of its purpose .  But it looks good\u2026Fading paint make it look  better. If you know the machine then drop a note to me. Cast iron with a pulley that connected to a  motor of some kind.  Pretty.<\/div>\n

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There is an exception to every rule.  The ammunition crates above , sort of military looking. do look new and should be so if the 40 of them<\/div>\n
are part of a war themed movie.    We bought all 40.  We had a gut feeling they will be wanted.  Of course we could be wrong.  Some of the<\/div>\n
things we hauled to the dump had never been wanted by a set buyer.  <\/div>\n

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 Even raccoons and Opposums and squirrels had avoided them.  One winter <\/div>\n
a large grey owl took up residence in our barn.  That discouraged other creatures thankfully.<\/div>\n

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Marjorie provided home made pizza for the crew.    Now that is unusual \u2026 moreso than anything else in these pictures.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 825     WHAT WE BOUGHT OR BARGAINED..SET SALE MAY 2023  MATTHEW BOLTON, MRTIN BUDD alan skeoch  May 26, 2023 Some Of our friends are \u2018downsizing\u2019.   Moving from large homes to smaller condominiums or apartments.  We are going in the opposite direction\u2026\u2019upsizing\u2019 for the movie industry.  Doubt very much that any reader will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}