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Although this is technically a blog, the content is not generally in a time-based sequence. You can find interesting items throughout. Down the page some is an alphabetical word cloud of keywords used here. A great way to dig in is to look through those topics and click anything you find interesting. You'll see all the relevant content.
Here are a few of my favorites!
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Balance Wheel Truing Calipers
My Elgin's Alright
I received an email about an interesting painting...
This painting is either a prototype for a well known Elgin advertising postcard, from the late 1930s, or the painting is made from the postcard image. At any rate there seen to be a connection.
Here's the painting, and the postcard.
Has anyone ever seen this painting, or one like it, before?
Address Change Again
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