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Older News & Events ScrapBook . . . Page 18
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Translation... “The Hobo File #9 [ bits and pieces ]”
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30 January 2008
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Picture Postcard Magic!
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Are you a postcard collector, remember the Golden Rule of collecting?
Do you have more than three? If so, you are a collector! Since they take up so little space, perhaps that number can be bumped up a bit with postcards, but think about how many postcards you have around the house. −Ralph Winter
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Carving Chips.....
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A Fine Pair of Ken Hunt Engraved Guns
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Lot 67 ~ J. PURDEY & SONS ~ A FINE PAIR OF KEN HUNT ENGRAVED 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS, NOS. 26427A AND 26427B ~ weight 6lb. 12oz. ~ Estimate £50,000-£70,000 GBP ~ 28-inch chopper-lump barrels with 2 3/4-inch chambers, about 1/4 and 1/2 choke borings, the frames, locks and gold numbered top-levers with fine bouquet and scroll engraving and retaining almost all of their original hardening colour, the lock plates each with a fine game scene of a brace of gold inlaid gamebirds, in flight against a realistic habitat, the no.1 gun depicting duck and geese, the no.2 gun depicting grouse, lockplates and trigger plates signed by the engraver K.C.Hunt, gold washed lockwork, lined cocking indicators, rolled edge trigger guards both numbered in gold, 15-inch highly figured exhibition quality stocks with engraved heel and toe plates, nitro proof, in their brass bound oak and leather case with canvas outer cover. ~ Sotherby's “Fine, Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns” ~ Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder Perthshire ~ Monday, 30 August 2004
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Carving Chips.....
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Spring BoTales is Progressing
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On the right is the first nickel carved by 2007 GRS Grand Master Engraver Ken Hunt of Surry, England. It was done on a host nickel selected from his birth year and he is Nickel Carver Marcus Hunt's father.
Read Ken's GRS Biography
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On the left is one of the two earliest known nickel carvings by Bert Wiergand as published in Joyce Ann Romines' 1996 book... “The Hobo Nickel ~ Hobo Carvings: An Exclusive Upgrade of Hobo Nickel Artistry”.
Read OHNS's NEWS Item
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21 January 2008
“Shamey Unwrapped”
~ Bob Shamey toothpick and fruit pit carvings
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−from the TV program “Unwrapped” on the food channel
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Click on the TV screen photograph to view Bob's YouTube video.
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17 January 2008
Have You Ever Seen a “Hobo Nickel”?
Did You Know More Than 400 People Collect Them, and Some Cost More Than $1,000?
−by Timothy B. Benford, published Jan 08, 2008
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Carving Chips.....
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OHNS BoTales Editor Ralph Winter and King Louie
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Ralph didn't tell me who was who in this photo but I think we can make a pretty good guess even though both guys look pretty durn happy. ~ V-Dubya
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Ralph Winter's photographs can be left-clicked on to view an enlargement.
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12 January 2008
$9,020
Record Price for a Hobo Nickel!
This Bert Wiergand carved nickel
is illustrated on page 38 of
Joyce Ann Romines' 1996 book...
“The Hobo Nickel ~ Hobo Carvings: An Exclusive Upgrade of Hobo Nickel Artistry”
Click on image to read clip.
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Illustration from book.
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According to the author this is one of Bert's two earliest known carvings.
She stated additionally that by microscopic inspection, this artistic carving was found to be a “total knife” carving.
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Roster of OHNS Officers − 2008
Click on above title to visit the “Roster of OHNS Officers” webpage.
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Ralph Winter's photographs can be left-clicked on to view an enlargement.
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Individual “Prices Realized” are posted with each LOT description on the catalog pages.
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Auction info provided here as a courtesy only.
The “official” auction catalog is the printed version and
will have all the final editing shown in it.
This item will remain at the top of NEWS
webpage until the Auction is held.
Posted: 16 November 2007
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10 January 2008
Railroad Nicknames −by Jon Macleod, texas_madman_1999
For years both Railroad Men and Hobos have made up Nicknames for different railroads depending on many factors;
such as attitude of employees, track, freight handling, passenger handling, and attitude toward Hobos.
This is a list of Railroad Names and the Nicknames for each Railroad Line!
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ACELA
AMTRAK Customers Expect Late Arrivals
Akron, Canton and Youngstown
The Pumpkin Vine
Algoma Central
Agony Central
Alamony Central
Algoma Central and Hudson's Bay
All Curves Hills and Bumps
All Curves and High Bumps
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Indiana and Ohio
Incomplete and Overextended
I&M Rail Link
I Might Receive a Living
I M Really Lost
IMpeded by River Level
IM Ready to Liquidate
Interesting Milwaukee Rock Link
IM Receiving Little
Indiana, Bloomington and Western
I Better Walk
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7 January 2008
Both New and Old Nickel Carvers Excel in New Year!
−by Ken Hunt
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−by Lee Kinder
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−by James Olivencia
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−by Steve Cox
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−by Marcus Hunt
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WWI's Lord Kitchener nickel carving (upper left) −by Derek Pegnall
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Newest chef-d'oeuvre −by Ray Cover
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−by Mike Pezak
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−by Robert Shamey
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Classic carving sold on eBay
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−by James Olivencia
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Carving Chips.....
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A Sneak Peek at a Work in Progress
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James tells us that he has been working on this one ounce $50 gold carving off and on for a year now and hopes to finish it up here shortly. I know the obverse shown here has a few refinements needed yet in his eyes (engravers, it seems, are NEVER satisfied!)
He also reveiled that the same stream you see behind our prospector here flows across the reverse of this carving also, showing... in his own words ..."He was a gold prospector, as you can see, turned Railroad Tycoon after he struck it rich."
James closed his message with... "You will see when I'm done - this picture is just a teaser!" Guess we will just have to wait! ~ V-Dubya
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3 January 2008
Welcome to the ‘Jungle’
−by Josh McAuliffe, Staff Writer
“Hobo Homes During the Depression: Photographs of the Scranton ‘Jungle’ by R. W. Jeffers.”
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Starting Friday, the University of Scranton’s Hope Horn Gallery will host “Hobo Homes During the Depression: Photographs of the Scranton ‘Jungle’ by R. W. Jeffers.”
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If you go
What: “Hobo Homes During the Depression: Photographs of the Scranton ‘Jungle’ by R.W. Jeffers”
When: Friday through Jan. 25
Where: Hope Horn Gallery, fourth floor, Hyland Hall, University of Scranton
Details: “Documenting the Hobo Jungle,” a lecture by gallery director Darlene Miller-Lanning, will be given from 5 to 6 p.m. Friday in Room 228 of the university’s Brennan Hall, followed by a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery hours are Sunday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m., and Wednesday, 6 to 8 p.m. For more information on the exhibit, call 941-4214.
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The word hobo evokes images of mangy, hardbitten characters riding the rails in movies and on television.
But their presence was a fact of life during the Great Depression, when desperate men took their meager possessions to shanty towns located on the fringes of one city after another, Scranton among them.
On Friday, the University of Scranton’s Hope Horn Gallery will unveil its latest exhibit, “Hobo Homes During the Depression: Photographs of the Scranton ‘Jungle’ by R.W. Jeffers.”
The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 25, kicks off at 5 p.m. with “Documenting the Hobo Jungle,” a lecture given by gallery director Darlene Miller-Lanning, Ph.D., in Room 228 of the university’s Brennan Hall. The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. in the gallery, located on the fourth floor of Hyland Hall.
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©The Times-Tribune 2008
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