Ah! Thanks. Yes I did miss your transcription. Sent some Olympus photomicro equipment on its way to a customer in South Australia earlier this week.
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Darren Addy <[email protected]>: > >> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Here's a ghost sign I found in Adelaide last year: >>> >>> >>> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP2414a-peso.html >> >> >> I love that one Brian. It is fun trying to decode what it says. >> On this one, I got: >> >> M. DONAGHY & SONS >> MANUFACTURERS OF >> ROPE&CORDAGE >> HARVEST TWINE KANGAROO BRAND >> WORKS, QUEENSLAND >> & GEELONG, VICTORIA >> >> Then it is fun to Google and see what can be learned about the company: >> http://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/2068.shtml >> Interestingly, that article makes no mention of Queensland location >> (information which might help to date when the Ghost Sign was >> painted). I also found no mention of a "Works, Queensland" so either >> I'm reading that wrong or the "WORKS" is supposed to go with the >> previous line (as in "Stanley Works", here in U.S. history). One can >> also search that infernal auction site (around the world) to locate >> advertising and other ephemera to help with dating the sign. >> >> It's sort of a mini mystery: The Hardy Boys and the Adelaide Ghost Sign > > > > Ah - you missed the transcription in the caption at the bottom of my photo. > > Your transcription is almost right but it's "Queenstown SA" not > "Queensland". > > SA is South Australia and Queenstown is a suburb of Adelaide. > > > > > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around." -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
