27 October 2008

New life for old stuff

For the first few days after setting up Mrs Neo's Paypal account... I have to confess... I was walking around feeling like a man who'd caused a train wreck.

Turns out though, she has been zeroing in on some interesting stuff... in particular antique tin chocolate molds. The molds are very often pieces of art in themselves, but some enterprising folks are also using them to turn out non-chocolate replicas of, well... just about anything.

The running rabbit, above... is a chalkware piece cast from Mrs Neo's latest acquistion... an Anton Reiche mold, circa early 1900s, that has yet to be delivered.

How's that for recycling?

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