tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post8680258454223206313..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: A Strange Brass VaseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-35951652781976089752011-08-09T15:52:55.922-04:002011-08-09T15:52:55.922-04:00ps Usually they were ornaments rather than vases. ...ps Usually they were ornaments rather than vases. They were so top-heavy that they would have overturned far to easily with flowers in them, and water would have triggered verdigris in no time.Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-56207924641834450552011-08-09T15:49:26.310-04:002011-08-09T15:49:26.310-04:00They were common in the UK when I was a child. We...They were common in the UK when I was a child. We had one. Makes you wonder, when you consider how much ordnance was slung to and fro on the Western Front during the Great War, just how much brass was used in shell casings. Suppose they just re-cycled.Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-67728646083787704172011-08-09T02:43:39.856-04:002011-08-09T02:43:39.856-04:00So you never knew him: that's sad. [My grandfa...So you never knew him: that's sad. [My grandfather fought in the Great War too. He lived until I was 11, so I got to know him a bit.]<br /><br />The shell-vase is a great memento. Now, if only EVERY weapon could be turned into a vase (plowshare, etc). War No More!!!JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-62264186931699674192011-08-08T17:56:29.305-04:002011-08-08T17:56:29.305-04:00Counterlight, your grandfather was quite a man. Y...Counterlight, your grandfather was quite a man. You should be proud.<br /><br /><i>He seems to have had an uncomplicated sense of duty to his friends, his neighbors, and his country all of his life.</i><br /><br />What a way to live a life. He's a model for us all.<br /><br />About the brass vase, it makes me think of the passage from Psalms about beating swords into ploughshares - a new life of a container for flowers for the shell that was manufactured for the purpose of destruction.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-92205922580396583872011-08-08T17:39:11.371-04:002011-08-08T17:39:11.371-04:00He seems to have had an uncomplicated sense of dut...He seems to have had an uncomplicated sense of duty to his friends, his neighbors, and his country all of his life. The question, "what's in it for me?" appears never to have come up.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-42918805072176015692011-08-08T16:47:48.565-04:002011-08-08T16:47:48.565-04:00...the words 'salt of the earth' come to m......the words 'salt of the earth' come to mind...it's margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13577280471100732619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-12241519174157897722011-08-08T16:47:11.518-04:002011-08-08T16:47:11.518-04:00--an appropriate re-cycling of a bomb shell. And G...--an appropriate re-cycling of a bomb shell. And God bless your Grandfather.it's margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13577280471100732619noreply@blogger.com