In my workshop I have a few wall hangings of pieces that otherwise would be dumped or stored in boxes. A couple came from our son Martin's place when he went east to Melbourne. Martin has a good eye for discarded stuff on the roadside chuck-outs which he calls 'GutterMart'. One piece is a Marx Brothers poster and the other is a print of a 1950s artist...Vladimir Tretchikoff. Martin's print is a bit damaged and so it lurks in a darker area of my shed. Tretchikoff was very popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. Thousands of houses had a print of the Chinese Girl. Wonder where they are all now? You can buy prints of Tretchikoff's works on eBay and art shops at reasonable prices.
This is a framed end of a Petrol box from the days when petrol was imported into Australia in boxes of One Gallon cans. I wonder whether they were American gallons or Imperial gallons?
In my workshop I have a few wall hangings of pieces that otherwise would be dumped or stored in boxes. A couple came from our son Martin's place when he went east to Melbourne. Martin has a good eye for discarded stuff on the roadside chuck-outs which he calls 'GutterMart'. One piece is a Marx Brothers poster and the other is a print of a 1950s artist...Vladimir Tretchikoff. Martin's print is a bit damaged and so it lurks in a darker area of my shed. Tretchikoff was very popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. Thousands of houses had a print of the Chinese Girl. Wonder where they are all now? You can buy prints of Tretchikoff's works on eBay and art shops at reasonable prices.
This is a framed end of a Petrol box from the days when petrol was imported into Australia in boxes of One Gallon cans. I wonder whether they were American gallons or Imperial gallons?
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