AUTUMN 2011

The collection at the farm is always changing.

My recent clean up of the barns has led to great discoveries akin to the moment Howard Carter peeped into Tutankhamun's tomb.
(perhaps a small overstatement)

Our wilderness behind the barns foams with life... deer, coyote, mink, turtles, frogs, geese, ducks, raccoons, possums...
even a flock of wild turkeys which I have heard but never seen.

A good pair of wellingtons are not required but helpful at the farm. As you may know, it has been a bit of a muddy year.
In fact, on one memorable occasion the bob cat sank to the hubs. Six yards of gravel has helped a bit!

What you see on the web page is not the whole collection... just a few thousand hints!

Here are but a few of my recent aquistions:

expanded fake canned goods
wicker baby carriage
primitive jogging cart (rickshaw?)
stuffed porcupine
barn beams
1975 International tractor (new Paint)
1953 International tractor (no paint)
flax crop bundles
new barrels
wood wheeled farm wagon
45 bar, courtroom, wood and leather chairs
early cash registers
plows, harrows, hand seeders
blacksmith forge, irons, etc.
butcher block
canoes (2)
row boats (2, wood and aluminum)

Everything of course is on the website for your viewing and sourcing pleasure.

SUMMER 2011

My barn was so stuffed with set dec possibles that even i didn't know what was there. And I was the "stuffer!"

For a couple of decades objects big and small, good and bad, new and blemished had been going to and coming from movie sets in the GTA.

Going out was easier than coming back. Usually the returns were fast and chaotic. Often in rain, sleet and snow.

So I stuffed things back fast. Piled them on top of earlier acquisitions. A archeological tornado aftermath.

A slowdown in movies gave me a couple of weeks to rediscover the barn.

And I found among other things:

ox yokes of various kinds
wooden implements
turnip pulpers, fanning mills and seed drills
line shaft pulleys from the Massey Harris factory
tools and tool boxes
a shoemakers shop complete
iron beds, wooden beds...even two perfect feather ticks
a perfectly preserved set of 1957 newspapers
a circus sideshow canvas
harness of all kinds
a canning machine
wagon wheels
a wheelwrights shop
children's wagons
trunks of all description
piles of ice cream chairs and tables
500 feet of lighting in long strings with bulbs-market tables
a raccoon family ( now evicted )

The list goes on.

All this and I have only organized half the building...with two more buildings to go.

SPRING 2011

What a winter! Spring and an update to the site have arrived just in time!

We are closing in on 2000 images so please, take your time and look around.

Also, added some photos to the GALLERY page. Some from productions and some

research and inspirational archival shots. Be sure to take a look while you're here.

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Roll out the barrel!

Lots of matching new and old barrels. Who knows, maybe there's a bit of leftover whiskey as a bonus.

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Matching hospital/ barrack beds x 10. Paint them if you like.

WINTER 2010

Purchased multiples of chairs from an old bar. Have 40 of them. They're in great shape.

 

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