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Updated: May 9, 2025
The lace-maker, and the housewife who occupied her leisure moments in lace-making, left behind many collectable curios. The worker of samplers and those advanced in the higher arts of needlecraft had also their little work necessaries.
Of the larger vessels such as wine bottles, the chief collectable feature about them is the old glass-bottle-makers' stamps, very frequently found on fragments of bottles, such stamps often turning up among the oddments of kitchen drawers which have probably been undisturbed for many years. To collect bottle stamps is certainly an uncommon hobby, but one that is not altogether devoid of interest.
At least once a year the books should be weeded out. Why carry as bills collectable accounts which you have been assured, for years, would never be paid? Wipe them out and charge them to profit and loss. Where machinery is used, it is a good plan to charge off every year ten per cent of the cost; this to make good the loss from wear and tear.
The latter are collectable on presentation. With the time notes "three days grace" are allowed after the expiration of the date for payment. No such favor is allowed in the case of demand notes. These grace days do not seem businesslike. Why not add them to the date in the note? Well, it is a custom, quite as old as the greater part of our laws, and so it must be observed.
Not long ago the late King Edward presented to the Commonwealth of Australia the table on which the great Charter was signed, together with the inkstand and pen used on that occasion. Those will be relics for future generations to value. The table appointments are among the collectable curios of the library, and prominent among these is the inkstand.
If it paid in a small North-country town or Midland village, why would it not pay much better in an area where the houses stand more closely together, and where luxurious living and thriftless habits have so increased that there must be proportionately far more breakage, more waste, and, therefore, more collectable matter than in the rural districts?
The ink-well was formerly accompanied by a sand box or a pounce caster, in modern days superseded by a second ink-well. The sand casters for sprinkling pounce or sand upon newly written pages were a necessity before the days of blotting paper. Perhaps some day blotters, blotting pads, and the like, may become collectable curios!
Watch Keys. Keyless watches have been invented within the memory of most of us; it is obvious, therefore, that old watches were supplied with old keys, many of which were curious in form. The collector in search of a small group of collectable curios finds the watch key an excellent variety on which to specialize.
You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-call but 'lights out. You pay the time-worn duty bills if you choose, or decline, if you prefer and without prejudice for they are not legally collectable.
Strict notice to a guarantor is not required to bind him, as in the case of an indorser. But to hold him liable in case immediate notice is not given, or the note is not immediately sued, it must be shown that he has not suffered injury from want of notice, or that the note was not collectable of the maker or indorsers when due.
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