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Arranging the Summer's finds...
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I'd promised the daughter I'd fix up the tooth she found, and so finally I got around to it. Have been postponing, and then began it and left in bits all over the kitchen, finally, finally finished it up. Bloody hell.
Originally:
Which we took out with a great deal of the accompanying dirt.
Washed, and carefully picked out all the pieces:
Some work ahead of me for sure. But I like this sort of stuff...
A bit of the glue used to mount it visible behind.
The other two finds that day:
The last one was a bit of a disappointment - a good complete piece that completely disintegrated upon mounting, had to scramble to get it partially back together before the glue dried.
In future the best policy would probably be to encase the specimens in resin or liquid plastic - for all my work they don't seem to get better, so just preserve them as they were found.
Next time.
Manila Folders, Pumpkin Pie & Aliens
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The aliens commanded by my daughter & son...to do, no doubt, with her program of study...The Pumpkin Pie because it was around Thanksgiving & the Manila Folders because he found them in a free pile. Sorry, they took forever to flatten out even just a little bit.
Roman Booteen
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Never got a chance to link to him - interesting stuff, made all the more so by his making them mechanical.
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Related: Hobo Nickels
An unrecoverable shipwreck
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An interesting Long Read, care of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Which whets ones' appetite for what may be down there...
Link: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/the-fishermans-secret/
What is insane is that having found it he can't recover it, and if he could it would very likely be lost to endless litigation by government and corporations that have no more legitimate interest in it than thieves. It underlines why most of the worlds treasures when found go unreported...
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