Posted 2 years ago
TomTopol
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The USA started in Dec 1914, and other countries followed. Initially, any passport photo was allowed as long as it fits on the passport. At this time, we can find the most curious photos on passports - at least in Germany. A girl with her guitar/dog, a woman on a horse, or a couple on a park bench are just a few examples.
TomTopol, Happy New Year. :-)
These passport posts of yours are amazing.
It's fairly incredible what used to pass as acceptable passport photographs years ago.
Thanks, and same to you!
Sewing machines are also a pretty unique topic. Do you collect them? You will need huge space ;-)
TomTopol, Nope. };-)
My personal collection of sewing machines has a grand total of one. I suppose you could describe it as vintage now, because it's probably over forty years old now.
Now, if you want to see a collection, the late great Bernadette had a lot of them:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/31518-my-antique-sewing-machines-some-of-them
Or the Elliots:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/user/Pam-and-J.C.Elliott
Me, I'm just an old Internet surfer who developed a fascination with vintage sewing machines a few years back. I suppose it's a bit like working puzzles.
It's not uncommon that people to start a "virtual" collection. I know several youngsters are doing so with vintage passports.
For everyone, the reason might be different. But it's great to see them develop a passion for collecting.
Collecting is a luxury, and young people nowadays do not collect vintage stuff anymore.
TomTopol, I hadn't really thought about it, but Collectors Weekly Show & Tell is a virtual collection, and the sewing machines therein a subset, to the tune of over a thousand as near as I can tell.
I have some personal virtual collections, like a spreadsheet of my coffee mugs. I donated the bulk of them to a local non-profit thrift store before the end of last year.
However, before I donated them, I photographed them (fifty plus), and otherwise documented them in a spreadsheet. It was my own geeky way of being able to let go of them. };-)
True, CW is a virtual collection of things.
Fun fact: I worked for Swiss sewing machine maker BERNINA for roughly one year at their plant in the North of Thailand as a Quality Manager. Enjoyable experience and good memories. And there was a vast Pfaff plant in the German city where I lived.