We’ve not had a Dilbert for a while, so time to rectify that …

Yet another collection of strangenesses from our local auction house. This collection is garnered from two recent sales. Just marvel at the weirdness of it all!
A half mannequin and two busts.
A large lot comprising Technics and JVC hi-fi, a shredder, a workman’s luminous jacket, plastic piping, modern ceiling lights, shelf unit, a mitre saw, a child’s duvet, cushions and tent equipment, etc.
A collection of Dinky model planes, including “Empire Flying Boat”, “Ranger Bomber” and “York”, an Astra model canon, 2 brass combs, a can of American wartime pure Dried Whole Eggs, unopened, and a Dried Machine Skimmed Milk, unopened, 2 bobbins, thimbles, lead soldier figures and a game of peg patience etc.
Why? Just why?
Costume jewellery, a silver-backed dressing table set, Wade rabbit and trough, small books on Freemasonry, two Oxo tins full of cotton reels, etc.
Two decorative portrait miniatures of elegant ladies in piano key frames …
A carton of old leather handbags and a box of old railway track, a tinplate lorry, a racing car, beads, etc.
An interesting accumulation of items including decorative scent bottles, Art Deco glasses, an old French roll of loo paper, cake decorations, a carved box, a crocodile spectacle case, purses, etc.
WTF with old French bog roll?
A carton of old tins and pipes, including Lions [sic] French Coffee, and a Milady tin of mainly bronze coins.
A collection of old boxes including a mirror and brush box, jewellery boxes, a clockwork spit, miscellaneous jewellery, a Robert Held art glass paperweight set with a diamond, an old paste pot the lid entitled ‘A Letter From The Diggings’, a set of weights, large tile, etc.
An album of mint gutters and traffic lights GB 1948-2005.
Very sad, but yes I do know what this means!
Five unused tortoiseshell style handbag frames.
A pair of lorgnettes, two monocles, a folding comb, and a pick.
A quantity of unboxed Matchbox cars and vans including Mercedes 300 SE, Ford pick-up and Lamborghini Mivra, a Ford Consul, Corgi car and a Husky walk-through van, a boxed Matchbox Y-12 1909 Thomas Flyabout, a tribal club and two boomerangs.
A pair of antlers.
A mounted claxton [sic] on a wooden base and a clear bottomed pewter tankard.
A zither by the Anglo American Zither Co.
Guinness ware comprising five jugs in sizes and three flagons in sizes
Two Beswick wall ducks
A substantial and interesting Victorian carved dark oak dresser, the large panelled back carved with an armorial of four rampant lions, dinosaurs and dragons, and biblical scenes and a portrait, supporting display shelves above a carved base with three frieze drawers and cupboard

For everyone going out to dinner this Valentine’s day …

The superannuated geek in me appreciated this …