#sporting antiques

[pwlanier]

Vintage Multiple Club Tennis Racket Press.

A very good adjustable multiple lawn tennis racket press made to hold up to twelve rackets. The press is made of oak, in great condition, and with a good patina. The tennis rackets fit in-between the wooden dividers and are tightened with the cast iron fly wheel handle which holds the rackets in place to stop them from warping. The wooden block that houses the wheel mechanism has two holes in the ends that correspond with the drilled holes on the metal bar. This allows you to slide it up and down depending on how many rackets you are storing in the press. This racket press was probably made for a Tennis Club, Country House or school. The press is unbranded but believed to be of Alfred Adrien Tunmer design.

A.A. Tunmer & Co. was founded by the Englishman Alfred Adrian Tunmer, born on January 4, 1876 in Southampton, he owned a sporting goods store on rue du 4 Septembre in Paris which opened in 1898.

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[herigo]

[formulanni]

Joshua Pearce ‼️‼️ the man that you are!!

I don’t even know if I should tag list this…. I’m so sorry guys : @st-leclerc @rubywingsracing @saviour-of-lord @three-days-time

[cherocarofficial]

1981 Delorean DMC-12

[ayatxt]

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[wetsteve3]

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Liselotte Grschebina, discus thrower, 1937, Israel, born in Germany.

[kafkasapartment]

Group Of Seven Jade Imperial Archer's Rings With Its Imperial Inscribed Cinnabar Lacquer Box And Cover, Marks And Period Of Qianlong; The Box And Cover Recorded To Have Been Made In Or Before 1752. (In ancient times rings of this type were called she. They were worn on the right thumb to protect it from the bow string when the archer discharged the arrow.)

[thoughtartistry]

[walzerjahrhundert]

Suit (sports suit, riding or hunting)

British

1890–1900

[mare-bare]

a real truth that supernatural was missing was dean being stopped every few minutes by an old guy coming up to him to say how much they liked his car

[pwlanier]

Oak Triangular Snooker Ball Case.

A portable, triangular, oak snooker ball box with brass fittings. The top bearing a circular brass plaque within a triangular fielded panel. The baize-lined interior complete with a compartment for coloured balls and a removable triangle for placing the red balls on a snooker table. The balls are included.

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[herigo]

[widowshill]

VAMP ROGER AU QUESTION! how would he and barnabas interact together (if they ever interact)? :3 💜

tagging @tortoisesshells because she's my co-conspirator <3

excellent question! this family and their sharp-toothed men will be the death of ... well, several community members of Collinsport, i suppose.

to start — Barnabas gets out of the box slightly differently than in canon, which colors his relationship to Roger and the rest of the household. Roger kills Willie after his attempted assault on Carolyn and Vicki (who is, by that point, his wife); Willie's mysterious disappearance and Roger's suspected involvement makes Jason that much more panicked, desperate, and correspondingly aggressive. Liz goes searching for the lost family jewels in a last-ditch attempt to buy Jason off, and, inadvertently, lets their ancient family sin out of the tomb.

ergo she's made Barnabas' thrall instead of Willie, but this goes unnoticed for a while — even though her brother would, in theory, recognize the signs, and his suspicions are raised, but she's already acting so much unlike herself with Jason around that he doesn't suspect anyone else of doing her harm. yet.

at the start, he and Barnabas get along very well, even before they discover their shared affliction: they're both relatively sophisticated, well-traveled, intelligent people, and for all that Roger decries Liz's emphasis on the Collins name, he leans towards familial connections instinctively (Roger hasn't got much in the way of friends outside of the house even in canon, and he's even more isolated as a vampire).

after he finds out Barnabas is also a vampire, things get a little more complicated, but overall, they're still friendly. Roger doesn't have much sympathy for Barnabas' relentless self-pity and decrying his doomed fate to live as a monster, because Roger on the whole enjoys his vampirism and has made a decent un-life for himself out of it (thanks in no small part to Vicki). but having someone like him around is a comfort in ways he wouldn't have expected, he's no longer solitary or uniquely monstrous out of the Collins family, he has someone else around through the night, and someone who understands the sufferings of bloodthirst and being shut out of the sun.

furthermore, Roger's very much interested in his family history and stories of the past, the building of Collinwood, Jeremiah's ships – and Barnabas was there. there's potential for some very interesting conversations about the past, and the arc of the Collins family history to the present, not to mention literature, travel, fashion, politics and the rest. Roger's his cousin's mirror in modernity in many ways, and that's something potentially interesting to explore: the world changes around them, but Collinses do not.

as an aside, they both have a funny sort of relationship to Burke. Barnabas hates him for his resemblance to Jeremiah and envies his friendship with Vicki and thinks he's crude, and Roger ... well. it's complicated. it's closer to antagonism than not, and Burke has tried to kill him once in this au, and Roger resents his flirting with Vicki, but then there's everything else with their past. so I don't think Barnabas' treatment of him would sit particularly well with Roger, he'd take the attitude of hey, only I can be a dick to Burke >:(

the definite fracture point is Barnabas imprinting on Vicki. Roger's already jealous and possessive by nature, and it's amplified by the supernatural nature of his relationship to Vicki (being closer, bodily and mentally; being necessary to each other; being, quite literally, sustenance) so he's already a little on edge when Barnabas starts paying attention to her, giving her presents, and appreciating the scenery — Barnabas doesn't, exactly, tend to have much in the way of moral inclination to leaving women alone when they have prior engagements, but it's fair to point out the irony of everything Roger was doing with his bloodbag governess when he was still very much a married man.

anyway: Roger finds foreign bite marks on his wife's neck, and he's understandably immensely upset by this. partially out of territorial sentiment, but he also knows Vicki, and he knows that she wouldn't have invited another vampire willingly — which means that she was forced, or hypnotized, or attacked in secret, and there's only the one potential suspect. this is already enough to lose his good will, but he might have been willing to let Barnabas go with a "hands off," had this discovery not lead to finding out what he'd also been doing to Liz. the combination of the two is unforgivable, and it's Barnabas' error to have made an enemy who is very personally aware of all his vampiric weaknesses, and Burke's already carved a stake.

[philoursmars]

Marseille, une des deux expos permanentes du MuCEM : "Méditerranées".

"Neptune créant le Cheval" - France, fin XIXe s.

fac-simile du "Laocoon" de Rome

apoxyomène (athlète se nettoyant après l'effort avec son strigile) d'après Lysippe, fin IVe s. av. J-C.; Discophore d'après Naucydès, début IVe s. av. J-C. ; culuristes en postures antiques, France, 1905

Fac-simile, "Les porteurs d'hydries", frise des Panathénées - Athènes, 440 av.J-C.

Georges Delpérier - "Buste d'Arlésienne"

[sakhiyabm]

We seriously love running. It’s just that we don’t take ourselves that seriously as runners.We're just, Chasing Good Times...