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1. Decorating With Lustres
Gold lustre, which produces colors ranging from pink to purple, was also popular during this period. Lustres are colloidial suspensions of finely powdered metals and metallic oxides which, when applied to a glazed object and fired, yield finishes of glittering beauty.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/crafts/​ceramics/​decorating_with_lustres/​

2. Baggage Labels
Not so many years ago it was the habit of the collector (or was he an exhibitionist?) to have his trunks and bags completely covered by stickers of hotels, steamship companies, railroads, airlines, and any other facilities that reflect travel.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/collecting/​baggage_labels.html

3. Books
This is because the first edition of a well-established writer is likely to run many thousands of copies, and a single copy is no longer a rarity, as it was when a wary publisher was speculating on a new author.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/collecting/​books.html

4. Buttons
It was not until about the end of the fourteenth century that a button and buttonhole were employed to fasten garments.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/collecting/​buttons.html

5. Ceramics
Crude pottery was shaped by prehistoric man, who used the sun's rays to dry its softness into a hard form.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/collecting/​ceramics.html

6. Clocks
The sundial was followed by the clepsydra, or water clock, which measured time by the flow of water through a small aperture.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/collecting/​clocks.html

7. Silver
Another popular metal commonly used then was electrum, a mixture of gold and silver, also known as "white gold.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/collecting/​silver.html

8. Wood Carvings
In Egypt, Arabia, and the other Mohammedan countries of Northern Africa, wood carving remained decorative and was used primarily to adorn furniture and other articles in daily use.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/collecting/​wood_carvings.html

9. Checkers And Chess
Originally called checkers, it takes its name from shah, and for that reason, many believe that it was first played in Persia.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/hobbies/​checkers_and_chess.html

10. Photography
We have photographed a porpoise flying through a hoop at the Miami Seaquarium and the result was a sharp picture in excellent color.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/hobbies/​photography.html


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