Grand Pianos

I’m in an antique shop and in front of me is a glass coffee table, clean and polished. The table is full of ornaments.

The little gems that catch my eye are these three miniature china grand pianos. All three are decorated with flowers and painted in bright colours.

On the table there are also decorative artificial flowers, these are determined to fall over and I have problems keeping them stable upon the table top. I move away before everything falls and collapses into pieces.

The image below is the best I could find to illustrate what I was looking at, my pianos were smothered with paintings and completely covered the pianos.

Piano-1

Hornby train set

Well here I’am walking down a street of antique stalls again. I arrive at a stall displaying a O Gauge post war Hornby Type 40 loco. I have one of these in black at home from my childhood, these can be in black, red or dark green.

There was a guy in front of me looking at it and seeing my interest started describing to me it’s history. I hadn’t seen how much it cost before he showed me the price label on the side of the train. I liked all of these; The whole collection, train rails and buildings came to £278. I talk to the stall owner and offer him £68, he says no!

The train was not the usual colour, it was a very pale light green with gold lines on it. The railway tracks were very narrow gauge and not the normal expected track size for this time peorid. There was also a model garage that was part of the collection.

The next thing I recall was meeting new people and having dinner in a restaurant.

Here’s a picture to give you and idea, but of course the remember the colours in my dream. In fairly good condition it’s worth £55