Old bicycles as decorative Items

If you are operating a coffee shop or doing same business alike, I'm sure you will decorate your coffee shop with flower pots or beautiful pictures. I'm sure you will hung very beautiful picture of yours at a very exclusive spot. You will put your best flower pots at a point where every customers of yours will notice.At times one of your customers will talk ' nice" about your decorations.
    Last week I was introduce by my old friend  a coffee shop in a small town in Perak..This town is famous by its local durians. If you ever taste a Batu Kurau's durian....then you know what I meant.So last Sunday I got myself ordering a plate of koewtiow at this coffee shop. Mind you ....before the fried koewtiow arrived at my table I was very busy taking pictures of old bicycles placed at every Conner's of the shop.

I tried to find the owner of the unique coffee shop but he is not around.

Old Hercules Bicycle.

I search  google a minute ago for information about Hercules bicycle.
Well..It was  a bicycle company from Briton . Founded in 1910 in Aston England.
The name Hercules was chosen for the bicycle name due to its durability and strong character.
By now the company has stop production Hercules bicycle. But before it stop production the company has exported  thousands Hercules bicycle to most of Commonwealth country.
   I got hold one old Hercules bicycle last week. It collected rust to most of its body.The main frame still good so its rims and pedals. It still got chain cover box and head lamp still good and dynamo still generate powers. The mudguards collects  most rust but I think I can handle that. The handle bar got a little rusty but rubber handle grips still had the original.
 
1. Old Hercules bicycle for sale : RM380.00 only

                                          Old Hercules bicycle logo

                                          Old Hercules bicycle head lamp.

                                         Old Hercules bicycle seat

                                          Old Hercules bicycle dynamo

                                                  Old Hercules Bicycle pedals and Chainbox

Old Hercules bicycle handle grip.

Old Coins New Coins

When I was in secondary school my English teacher used to ask us to  write essay about our hobbies.

Then she would asked us to read our essay loudly in front of the class. Those days my English was very very horrible.The class always lough at my pronunciation and my horrible grammar.Till today my English still very very horrible because of my lack of communicating in English.

   Ok about my hobby....mind you this was my first effort collecting something that later I just wonder why? why? why coins ? Mind you If you got a hobby , you tend to let the whole world to know that you are joining other people with the same interest. I got hold some coins...new and old but I admit that collecting coins actually there is no fun in it.

                                                    Old coins new coins

                                         Old coins new coins

                                         Old coins new coins

                                                    Old coins new coins

Old Seven Up Bicycle

I used to ride one of this long time ago. The seven up bicycles are fun to ride at the time. If you  own new one at that time you can show off to all your friends. It has very unique brass or copper named brand like other bicycles at that time.  It is quite  a heavy bicycle because it was made of  all steel except for its tyres.
You still can see some old timers riding one of this around old housing area.
Its now becomes a collectors item because it is hard to find one in a bicycle shops.

1. Old seven up bicycle for sale RM280.00 only.

                                                old seven up bicycle

                                                Old seven up bicycle

                                            Old seven up bicycle

old seven up bicycle

Blue and white china - Soup bowl

Not many of us had the opportunity to have or own an antique china.
I feel lucky to have a few to my collections. If I were to buy them.....it will cost me a fortune.
Antique china is very expensive to make one a hobby. One single genuine antique blue and white china will cost a few thousand ringgit.And then you will have to be good enough to distinguish them if it is antique or just a duplicate or modern china. Most of antique china are hand made and the blue decoration are hand painted with cobalt oxide imported from Iran or Iraq..( Persia to be exact) .

1. Blue and white soup bowl for sales

                                        Blue and white soup bowl

                                        Blue and white soup bowl.

                                        Blue and white soup bowl

Old New Hudson bicycle body frame.

If you become obsess to your hobby you end up collecting everything that come to your path.

                                          Old   New Hudson bicycle frame

New Hudson bicycle frame

Some friends of mine start collecting old bikes made from England and Germany.
They will find time and effort bicycle hunting.
They will find time going to kampung kampungs searching for old and antique bike.
To look for antique bike maybe it is too difficult to find because it is make 100 years old to be classified antique..further more most of us will throw away old broken bike.
I would like to show you here how far they will go to collects old bike.
Usually they will search google.But most off the time they go hunting at bicycle shop at small kampungs.
Sometimes they swap with each other who share same interests.
And few are willing going to the globe searching ...
And me prefer the safe side....driving around kampung kampungs searching old bikes.

Blue and White China

Every time we discuss about porcelain or pottery we cannot help ourselves discuss or talk about china.
China porcelain or China had it own famed...
Every antique collectors try their best to own one or two Chinese porcelain or pottery..
The famous china or porcelain came from Ming dynasty and Qing Dynasty.Although other Dynasty own their best.
The blue and White porcelain from China are the most search one. The blue decoration which are made from cobalt oxide are imported from Iraq or Iran .They are hand painted on  the pottery and later glaze are put on and fire once.
Now days the "qing-hua" or blue flower  are not painted by hands..The design or flower are applied by stencilling or transfer printing...And they looked exactly the same.

1. One pair of hand painted blue and white china for sale .

                                        hand painted blue and white china

                                          Blue and White china