The Annex - Architectural Salvage

06/24/2023

Slow going at the new 'Annex' but a little progress every week...

10/31/2022

10/31/2022

Still in the long process of moving from Columbia Station to Leroy township but still picking up auction items while I was sorting through a recent purchase of drawers of hardware I came across this old razor. Cool from Cleveland. Researched the name and found this listed in the Encyclopedia of cleveland History, https://case.edu/ech/articles/w/waechter-und-anzeiger

WAECHTER UND ANZEIGER (The Sentinel & Advertiser) was Cleveland's longest-lived ethnic daily and one of the city's major newspapers in its own right. It began on 9 Aug. 1852 as Waechter am Erie (Sentinel on the Erie), a German weekly founded by Heinrich Rochette, Louis Ritter, and JACOB MUELLER. It was edited by AUGUST THIEME, who soon purchased it and made it a force in the young Republican party. In 1872 it bolted to the Liberal Republican ticket of Greeley and Adams. A newly founded rival, the Anzeiger (Advertiser), supported the regulars and endorsed Grant. Prior to his death in 1879, Thieme converted the Waechter to a daily in Sept. 1866. By 1880, when it was published once again by Mueller, it had also added a Sunday edition. In 1893 it was merged with the Anzeiger by the German Consolidated Newspaper Co., capitalized at $100,000.

Although World War I temporarily pumped circulation to a record 34,000, it proved ultimately disastrous for the Waechter und Anzeiger after the U.S. entered the conflict against Germany. Two of its editors were interned as enemy aliens, while ownership of part of its stock by a German resident placed the paper under the direction of the Custodian of Enemy Alien Property. While managing to survive the war, by 1924 the Waechter und Anzeiger lost more than half its circulation. In 1928 it effected a limited merger with the Hungarian-language SZABADSAG under the aegis of the Consolidated Press & Printing Co., but its Sunday edition was dropped during the Depression. Szabadsag and the Waechter went their separate ways in 1939, when the German paper was bought and reorganized by Friedrich Wilhelm Oberacker's Press & Plate Co. It published its last daily issue on 10 May 1954, when Press & Plate went out of business. Its assets were subsequently purchased by Stefan Deubel, who revived Waechter und Anzeiger as a weekly in Sept. 1954. With circulation down to 1,100, however, the paper finally ended 136 years of publication in April 1989.

Quite a bit of information and videos on the Valet Auto / Strop Razor. Interesting stuff.

04/11/2020

Courtesy of Covid-19 I have had plenty of time to return to the Annex and sort and put away a lot of salvage. The Annex will be reinvented as a 'one of kind build shop' still using salvaged items but less focus on maintaining an inventory of salvaged items and more a focus on repurposing those items. My daughter visited and took these pictures. I will always be in for the pick just not holding onto the stuff as much and definitely not trying the retail sales route again.

11/27/2019

Sorry, the day job has been keeping me busy. Look to an announcement in the next month or so about The Annex eBay sales site.

05/24/2019

Kurt Vargas was one of my first instructors for my EPA asbestos classes at first with Gandee and associates and now with Inservice Training Network http://www.inservicetrainingnetwork.com/ this is their museum.

11/07/2018

Items added to my spot at Finders Keepers.

10/28/2018

A few things I have for sale at Finders Keepers in Berea. New stuff added weekly!

10/02/2018

Expanding my spot at Finders Keepers more stuff coming to those empty shelves in the next week or so.

08/28/2018

Selling my smalls at Finders Keepers Corner in Berea.

08/21/2018

These treasures and others are headed to Finders Keepers this week