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A lump of glass, a spark plug, a bottle top, a cork of some sort, and who knows what else.
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(800x547, 41.9KB)		 There's a more than usually excitable sign next to this display talking about the hugely valuable
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(800x555, 58.0KB)		 Auckland skyline from the top of Mount Victoria.
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(800x549, 33.6KB)		 Not, as they might appear, ashtrays; these are decorative things you'd put under casters on heavy furniture to protect the floor beneath. I'm not quite sure how you get the furniture onto them in the first place, admittedly.
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Huh huh huh.
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(800x552, 52.3KB)		 Hundreds of bottles at the Muzeum, and on top, spinning wheels, bags of rice, more miscellanea.
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(800x554, 77.3KB)		 Amidst the oddities and weird collections, an ancient Bible.
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(800x544, 42.3KB)		 A wall of hats.
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Dad marvelling at the collection of stuff in the Muzeum.
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(800x542, 77.0KB)		 A large tower of electrical insulators.
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From our visit to Devonport, Mar 2nd 2003. Lots of things from the Devonport Muzeum, a building chock full of parts of one man's life's work collecting, well, stuff.
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