Cotton float roll
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Re: Cotton float roll
I must admit that I received another, as promised, with no stamps or marks ... and left feedback that, after a small problem, I was happy with the service.
I will donate the one with the printing on to the next TFF auction, should there be one.
I will donate the one with the printing on to the next TFF auction, should there be one.
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Splendid AC, that's a lovely gesture!
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Re: Cotton float roll
My you chaps are quick! Saw this post this morning and was going to tell everyone about the surgical rolls on ebay but went to the River Cam for a couple of hours, came home and it seems everyone has one! I purchased mine about a month ago and it had strange red stains. Rust from scalpels or patients blood?! Still a bit of character is welcome (popped it straight in the wash tho). They do look most handsome when full.
Sorry!! Just noticed dates on the first posts. Still getting the hang of a forum. Apologies.
Sorry!! Just noticed dates on the first posts. Still getting the hang of a forum. Apologies.
Re: Cotton float roll
Mark wrote:Mine came today and it has stamped on it 'General Education and Science, Brooklands Technical College, Weybride' and in red ink the number '19'. I think it gives it a bit of character'
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And here it is with some of my floats.
I can't think why I ever missed this post. I had a dead ringer for the "float roll". They were issued at my school in Camberley, Surrey to A level pupils studying zoology and botany. Scalpels, needles, scissors and forceps where stored in the pockets with a cut-throat razor (for cutting transverse sections of, for example, plant stems) in the side pocket.
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Re: Cotton float roll
Hmm, I have one of those ex-army tool rolls. Mine came with a load of unused Whitworth spanners
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I normally put it down to my age Weyfarer. :chuckle:Weyfarer wrote:I can't think why I ever missed this post. I had a dead ringer for the "float roll". They were issued at my school in Camberley, Surrey to A level pupils studying zoology and botany. Scalpels, needles, scissors and forceps where stored in the pockets with a cut-throat razor (for cutting transverse sections of, for example, plant stems) in the side pocket.
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where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
Re: Cotton float roll
I kept thinking I'd seen one in a book too, and I've just found it - "Catch a big fish", edited by David Carl Forbes (London: Newnes, 1967). Opposite page 7:John L wrote:I saw one of these in a book years ago( think it was called " Angling").
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I sorted the photo Davy
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Have you seen the eBay sellers auction for elder pith?.....most humourous!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PITH-ELDER-VI ... 416c3cde8f
Have a look at his other auctions....should appeal to our Snape no end!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PITH-ELDER-VI ... 416c3cde8f
Have a look at his other auctions....should appeal to our Snape no end!
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That is the picture....Ill check the name of the book next time im round mum and dads.Oh in the 80s I got me mum who was good at sewing etc to make me one of these.......Long gone!davyr wrote:I kept thinking I'd seen one in a book too, and I've just found it - "Catch a big fish", edited by David Carl Forbes (London: Newnes, 1967). Opposite page 7:John L wrote:I saw one of these in a book years ago( think it was called " Angling").