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Dad’s Drawers Part Three – The Fat Nude and the sea of bubble wrap
The Fat Nude (with the uneven knees) ….. and, how I ended up in Christie’s Auction House surrounded by a sea of bubble wrap, with a fit of the giggles. The Fat Nude (my title, not the artist’s) is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Bob Cobbing, Buttons, Christie's, Collections, Dad's Drawers, Drawers, Francis Newton Souza, Fred Plisner, Gun, Hendon Experimental Arts Group, Hoarding, Military Buttons, Photgraphs, Plastic Milk Bottles, Recycling, Rubbish, Sculpure
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Dad’s Drawers: Episode 2 – The Gun
Dad’s Drawers: Episode two and the story of the gun. Some background first and then the gun. My dad was an Austrian Jew, born in Vienna in 1919. Hoping to keep one step ahead of Hitler he, in his own … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Pistol, Alps, Austin 1100, Austria, Austrian Jew, Christies of London, Collections, Education, Escape, Gun, Hitler, Hoarding, junk, Plastic Milk Bottles, Pyrannes, Recycling, Rubbish, Saxby Palmer, Vienna 1938
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