Jon's Hobby Collections

Kept for more than 25 years or maybe longer than that, this piece serve as a good collector item and also a home appliances which can still function normally. This is a Toshiba brand rice cooker and it is originally made in Japan at that time. It is definitely lovely to see those Japanese branded vintage items that were originally made in Japan. Nowadays it is hard to find Japanese electronic brands which were made in their own home country. I was very attracted to the old fashion vintage cotton covered wires which is already extinct from today's electronic industry. Today, every electrical wires are using rubber coated wires which are more safe as compared to cotton covered wires which were used in the past. I will be sharing more about cotton covered wires in my next post in the future. Back in a few months ago, my mum tested this vintage rice cooker and everything works very well. She tested it by boiling some rice and all the rice inside the pot were well cooked.

This is really a vintage medical box from the 60s or maybe the 70s. This piece here is used to store most of my grandmother's shop medical supplies. I have not open this medical box in my whole entire life until recently I open it. In this discovery, there were a lot of vintage and old medicine bottles and also medicine boxes which were kept for a very long time. In today's modern world, medical boxes are made easy to carry and lighter in weight. This box is made from solid wood and it has not be taken down from it's original place since it was hanged there. The size of this kit is also much larger as it can allow lots of medicine to be safely stored inside. The paint of this kit here is original and also in good condition. Certainly, this unit here surely collects a lot of dust on the surface top and also the surroundings of it. I was quite happy to find a lot of vintage stuffs inside this medical box when I first took my glimpse inside it. Here is a handful of

This piece is an extremely rare piece to get these days especially in this set of condition and also if you ever overcome with such a huge drying tray like this. Not many people or collectors are willing to keep these kind of rattan things especially bulky and huge ones. Rattan is known to break easily when you don't store them well or used it for many times. With measurements of 64.8 cm in diameter, this piece here is really a huge piece which is normally used for drying of spices in a larger and bigger scale. Although the light brown colour of the rattan have turned darker in colour, the condition of this rattan still remains high quality. Long exposure in the sun, will cause the rattan to change it's colour from light brown to dark brown. The quality of rattan used for this piece here is also excellent. According to my dad who always help my grandmother to dry herbs in the past said that to make a strong rattan, the rattan is needed to be soaked in a syrup solution for

Wall fans are less popular in most parts of the world because the air circulation speed is much lesser as compared to ceiling fans. Here is one Sanyo wall fan. This is an early 1980s piece which was built 100% in Japan. The beautiful pink colour of this fan blade had been worn out due to long exposure to the sun. In fact, this was the original fan blade and it has not changed once it was bought. There is also a spare fan blade for this which my grandfather kept it. This wall fan is facing the evening west sun and this there are a lot of colour wearing out and also small broken parts. As you can see clearly, there is a broken part on the plastic front cage. This fan is also missing its other pull switch rope which function to trigger the fan to oscillate from right to left. The numbering on the fan speed scale have also been worned out too. It is quite a bit costly to repair these kind of fans these days because there is no more spare parts already. Especially the fan blade

I enjoy collecting vintage electrical appliances and I started this hobby not long ago. My hot collection items are old fans, turntable, amplifier and bakelite switches. I have other vintage electrical appliances which are also brand new and some are being currently used daily. On my future blog post, I will share more regarding my vintage electrical appliances that I have owned and some of them are owned by my relatives. Not to forget, these vintage stuff have a unique feature which makes me want to tell you guys more of it.

This is a much smaller version of a display cupboard which is now left hanging on the wall of my grandma's old shop. Originally used for keeping old collectible items like coin boxes and now it is empty. The wood of this piece here is still in a good shape, but the colorful wood coated layer is slowly peeling off a bit. As the ages goes by, the layer of the wood itself and the thin coated surface layer will wear out and peel off over time. If you want to make sure everything still stays intact, one must super glue lightly on the edge of the wood. The shelves of this cupboard is made from 100% real glass and it is very fragile. Over time, this glass wears thin as it is being exposed to the glass cleaner from time to time. The sliding glass door of this cupboard is also very hard to be taken down and until today, I am not so sure how to take down the sliding glass without breaking it. Besides the glass which are hard to take down, the wood which is supporting the cupboard is