Jon's Hobby Collections

This fan was originally bought in 1946 right after world war 2, when my great grandma bought the shop. I believe that time, after the war broke out, many of the shops when through renovations and many of them were rebuilt back again. So that is how I predict the age and the year of this fan. This fan is placed in the living room upstairs of the old shop. Having a ceiling fan like this was really a luxury in the past, as many couldn't afford it. The most common brand ceiling fan in the 40s were GEC fan. USHA is a cheaper version of the GEC fan as it is made in India. The quality of the USHA fan is as good as the quality of the GEC fan. This fan ball bearing have not been changed for about 40 years and it is still in good working condition. The fan can still spin at max speed without making any noise. Whereas for the fan regulator, a GEC regulator was being used to replace the old USHA regulator. After searching in the store room at the old shop, I found this old regulato

Restoration is part of a job of every antique collector. Infact, this is my first restoration project which I decided to do after getting advice from my fellow collectors on how to restore this antique iron. This iron wasn't kept well as you can see in the picture below, there were a lot of damages. This iron is also pitted, which means that it is not made from 100% brass and there is a small presence of other impurities present in the brass mixture. There is also some green colour staining around the iron. The wooden handle of the iron is also broken. The damaged was due to the water vapor from the hot charcoal which condense on the wood, and caused the wood to slowly break apart. The hook of the iron is also missing. The iron rod in the iron is also heavily rusted and broken in the inside. As for now, I bought a can of Brasso, a tube of Autosol and 120 sandpaper. My plan is first to polish up the iron and also to make it shinny again. Next is to fix the wood usi

Wine glasses makes a beautiful piece display item for your glass cabinets. These glasses are given free when you make a purchase of a certain amount on beer, wine or other items. For my case, this lot here belongs to my uncle who previously owns a wine shop. All of these glasses comes in different sizes. There are also some rare glass wine such as the Harp Lager glass. That glass is from the late 70s to the early 80s. This harp wine glass is specially design for Asia market like Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. Thus getting wine glass like this is rare unlike Hennessy, Martell and Johnnie Walker, which design their wine glass for world market.  One eye attracting thing about these wine glass is that there is this gold colour rim on the mouth piece of the glass. This designs makes it looks even more classic. In this collection, there is also some rare mobil small wine glass. Today, mobil freebies are getting lesser and lesser these days. I do even have vinta

When my mum did her cleaning up at home, she across a big bunch of vintage paper bags left a in a cupboard which is owned by my grandmother. To my excitement, I did a quick browse through all the paper bags, hoping to find some rare advertisements printed on the paper bags. During the search, my eyes were suddenly captured by the number of digits of the telephone number. I was really surprised to see 4 digit phone number printed on the paper bags. 4 digit phone number on paper bags does mean it is old and also very rare to get one. An easy guess, all of these paper bags could be from the late 50s or early 60s. I am also mind blown to see that most of the paper bags that my grandma had kept are still in a very good condition I bet she have kept all these for the future generations to view them.

Finally got my hands on this 23rd edition coin and banknote catalogue. I was really waiting for quite awhile to own one of the latest catalogue book as my previous catalogue book were quite a few years back in time. Bought at a price of RM 80 (I got discount cause I bought some other banknotes from the seller as well at that time). The retail price of this book is RM 99 (SGD 33). This catalogue is authored by Mr Steven Tan with the help of his other friends. This book offers a complete price guide on Malaysia, Singapore, Straits Settlements, Malaya, Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei banknotes. After browsing through the book, I found this book very helpful to me as it helps me to determine the value of the banknotes and coins well. If you are looking for a good price guide, I would want to recommend to you all this book.