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photos of other lone star cars brought in by Mark Sterling and Nico

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Some photos of Mark Sterling's toy cars, predominantly Lone star cars and trains.

car mount

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Susie
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I work in museum display. Looking specifically at how the car is mounted within it's acrylic box, I would suggest that it has been screwed in to small piece of acrylic rod.

Leaded gaming minitures

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Peter
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I remember when I was younger and I used to play with metal military miniatures.

Falu/Falun

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The first instances of painting with Falu Rödfärg Paint date back to the 16th century, manufactured as a by-product of the mining process in the copper mine in Falun.

Household Lead Testing Kit

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Never mind the Scanning Electron Microscopse - forget the Pigment analysis here is the real science. Delivered directly to the Object Retrieval bus this morning was a "Household Lead Test Kit".

Toots and the Maytals

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Another famous Toots of course is Toots and the Maytals. And just for Object Retrieval, the attached Christmas number features all sorts of American cars.

'Pataphysics

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For methods on how to create a portal see Pataphysics:

1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition

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The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, was the last and the greatest of the nineteenth century's World's Fairs.

Towards a futurology of the object: Part 3 - Replica

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We are making replica copies of the toy car from the stunt copy that we have.

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