One’s Junk, Another’s Treasure

Last weekend, thought I’ll try my luck with the local car-boot sale a visit, hoping to find some interesting object(s) for this brief. Surprising enough despite the local car-boot sale having quite a number of stores, the amount of objects that caught my eyes was either far too few or far too expensive, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t manage to get a few bargains along the way:

Vintage Telephone

Vintage Telephone

This vintage telephone caught my earlier interest simply because one of these things are hard to come-by nowadays, at least from where I come from. The state in which this piece was bought at was…quite acceptable. The telephone itself is mechanical in its nature and on top of that it has interface to interact with. Dial. This object I believe answers the brief. But what would be interesting is to perhaps pry the outer-shell apart and see what is inside. I am more inclined to lean towards using this telephone as ‘THE’ object for the brief.

Halina AI Vintage Camera

Halina AI Vintage Camera

This camera is actually my favorite find of the day. This is sort of an imitation to one of those Rolleflex/Rolleicord TLR cameras but regardless, the dual-metallic lenses actually makes the camera stand-out somewhat distinctively. The object is mechanical and the interaction with it would…slightly different than other cameras, but I’m just generalising at this point. It would be a little disappointing to pull this little guy apart but I guess I’ll leave it alone at this point.

‘Challenger’ Typewriter. This piece of ‘modern’ typewriter was actually my first buy for that day. This object is still fully functional keys, ink ribbons still intact, it has an ‘interface’; that alone speaks for itself.

More images of the objects here.