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Interesting Stuff and Collectables

Stuff we think is interesting or perhaps relevant. It's all stuff that comes and goes.

We hope you like it!

It may not be homebrew but it's probably got a link to wine or beer some where!

Double Diamond Plate

Nice plate, 8" Diameter.

Double diamond! Wow! Might have been an ashtray but doesn't have any grooves in it for your fags. Few crackles in the glaze but no chips or cracks. A heavy plate, like thick canteen stuff!

Boxed Alcohol Hydrometer Sykes

Old hydrometer for measuring alcohol in distilled products.Boxed in what I think is a mahogany box.

Incomplete- Missing a couple of weights and the thermometer.

Has the slide rule for calculating the difference in temperature on proof.

The hydrometer is brass with small weights, but there's two missing!

Inlaid badge on lid reads- Sykes Hydrometer, Spencer and Son Dublin

A nice thing to own in an atrractive box.

Measure 25 x12 Cms

Heavy Brass Advertising Plate

Whitbread and Company advertising brass plate.

Weighs over 3kg. Looks like it was screwed to the wall outside a pub door.

Solid brass, with the Hinds Head!

meaures 33 x24 cm

Old Wooden Pump Handle

Just the pump handle and the brass base- There's no pump!!

We've sold a few to people who have them as display pieces on the bar!

They were screwed to the beer engine, the handle is wood.

The handle is loose on the brass as the pump held it all together.

33 Cm long

Small Schweppes Willow Pattern Bowl sold

Small shallow bowl, 12cm made by Barrats

No chips or cracks. Too small for an ashtray. Must have been used round the bar for something.

Possibly to keep the lemon slices in!

Horse and Hounds Pump Handle SOLD

Just the pump handle! No brass base.

Made of porcelain

22 cm long

Big Hydrometer

49 cms --About 20"!!- Looks like it was used for advertising- Stevensons wine and beer.

Too big for homebrew use!

Carlsberg Pump Head

Working pump head. Decorative or could be adapted for a cornelius keg system

It's got a couple of marks but looks unused, no drip tray but has the holder, bar clamp ,fitting for the beer line etc.

Cribbage Board- Banks's Ales

Nice polished wood cribbage board. Unused with Banks's written on it.

Don't see much crib played in pubs now but when we were lads we all played!

Beer Back -Copper Sorry!! This baby is sold!!

In the bad old days they used to collect all the slops and put them back in the mild. This is the thing they used!

It's copper and steel and basically is just a copper funnel with a strainer on a stand. The tub of steriliser is there so you can see the size!

There's the big strainer, which sieves out the fag dimps and what not then the fine one which gets out bits of fluff and so on.

It originally had a pipe screwed on the bottom so the beer flows into the barrel through the little hole in the top...

Tea Mug

Its the size of a normal mug and it's got Prince William 24 carat gold written underneath--Made in England

A lovely thing and Id say it's about 50 years old---

Old Tetleys Pub Sign

Lovely old Tetleys pub sign.

60x40 cm not including the mounting bracket

Made to mount on wall, comes with the swan neck type bracket so it sticks out from the wall.

The panels are on three sides and are all plastic, the top is copperand steel painted black. Someone has started to clean it back to the copper so it either wants finishing off or painting black!

The roound base is also a plastic panel and is also illuminated.

You will have to get the light fitting checked, we're selling it without a plug, to use it as a lighteded sign you will need an electrician

Illuminated inside with a fluorescent fitting- It's probably from the 1980's or 70's.