Just got on auction Vapalux 1944. The fount looks like it was spending many winters outdoors -- in Normandy, since D-Day... Anyway, it is interesting task to fettle it... (seller's pics).
What? Where? ================================ Today parcel arrived. Top part looks quite well, fount -- as I expected. Spent some time on bathing the top in oxalate acid, neutralizing and polishing. Here you are.
Very nice job Mark The top looks almost too nice but then again it is another material. Im impressed the label is to be seen and I like the colour shows so fine despite the rough life it had. Nice restoring and not at all overdone Wtf is spec-savers ? Googletranslate just translates it to the same. Claus C
Ah thanks Tony. So I got close using Google-translate I dont need spec-savers and I still love the lamp David Claus C
Specsavers are a chain of opticians in the UK (and elsewhere for all I know). Their TV adverts generally show someone not wearing glasses (spectacles) who does something silly due to poor vision. The punchline is 'Should have gone to Specsavers'. The current advert is a shepherd who hand-shears a flock of sheep and then also shears his sheepdog by mistake... Postman Pat This is a good one I hadn't seen before - Das Boot. Some good comments, too!
Whale -- heh, heh... About a shepherd and a sheepdog was a joke about an EU expert. Here is a punchline, since I think almost everyone knows it: -- How did you guess that I'm an EU expert? -- I't easy: you come not invited, you answer the quesions, where I already have the answers, you ask for reward, when we have no contract and you know sh!t about my work. Give me back my sheepdog!
That same advert with the shepherd as well as the punchline (in danish though) is used in Denmark by an optician chain called Louis Nielsen. They must have some common owner.
