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Lady Blue · 06-05-2009, 05:33 PM

Thanks. I have a huge collection of vintage (antique) padlocks and keys; literally hundreds of padlocks, a great many of them with the matching keys. I have a few vintage padlock 'master' keys with which many of the keyless locks can be opened also. I'm sure I have thousands of those vintage keys too.

The Indian Mandela on the wall was made by my daughter (not one of her best, but looks much nicer up close.) The large black ribboned memo board I made myself because I don't like the small commercially made ones with silly/busy looking fabrics that detract from any photos or momentos you might want to display. I made the framed leaf thing on the wall and the double glassed (leaf) display frame on the credenza, the arrowheads in the display frame on the leaning shelves, and a few other things you can't see in the photos, like the picture below. In this floating frame are foreign currency bills that my father-in-law brought back from his WWII service. (It doesn't photograph well because of the glare of the office lights.)

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And of course on the leaning shelves you can see my 1968 22-volume collection of Harvard Classics.

Everyone in the company called my office "The Cave."

06-05-2009, 05:33 PM	#84
Lady Blue the snarky blue one Posts: 6,001 Karma: 3877825 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: deep in the heart Device: PRS500, 505 & 600, PRST1 & T2, Kindle PW, Moto Razr, Galaxy Tab 2-10"	Thanks. I have a huge collection of vintage (antique) padlocks and keys; literally hundreds of padlocks, a great many of them with the matching keys. I have a few vintage padlock 'master' keys with which many of the keyless locks can be opened also. I'm sure I have thousands of those vintage keys too. The Indian Mandela on the wall was made by my daughter (not one of her best, but looks much nicer up close.) The large black ribboned memo board I made myself because I don't like the small commercially made ones with silly/busy looking fabrics that detract from any photos or momentos you might want to display. I made the framed leaf thing on the wall and the double glassed (leaf) display frame on the credenza, the arrowheads in the display frame on the leaning shelves, and a few other things you can't see in the photos, like the picture below. In this floating frame are foreign currency bills that my father-in-law brought back from his WWII service. (It doesn't photograph well because of the glare of the office lights.) And of course on the leaning shelves you can see my 1968 22-volume collection of Harvard Classics. Everyone in the company called my office "The Cave."