Plimpton
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45) [1]see plimpton engineering coplimpton and co are described as american merchants and factorsplimpton and co of plimpton's buildings, old hall street, liverpool; and at 25 phipp street, great eastern street, london, ecplimpton of liverpool] a very rare example if you collect button hooks or fine silver they were only produced between and() john calvin plimpton was an american citizen who moved to the uk, probably in the s, with his wife caroline augusta birdin various directories from to jtheir son charles bird plimpton, was the inventor of bayko, the world's first plastic construction toylisted exhibitormanufacturers of clocks, art regulators, bank regulators, mantel clocks, round timepieces, and movementssterling silver hallmarked antique shoe button hook made by j
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plimpton transcends the limits of the ordinary biography by presenting the story in the voices of the many people who lived itthere are so many different voices, just like those at the parties which he gave remorselessly, that he comes alive from a hundred different vantageswe are allowed to listenand then to make up our own mind who capote really was' daily telegraph 'capote's life, brilliant, sharp and fragmentary as a broken mirror, is made vividly present' anthony haden-guest, sunday times see oxfam website for delivery information read morethat capote can be seen and heard at first handoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'reading this oral biography is like gate-crashing one of capote's parties and being buttonholed by a series of insistent guestsengaging and entertaining' peter ackroyd, the times 'its babel of contradictory voices does justice to a complex and multi-faceted man, while avoiding the desiccated thickets in which more conventional biographies flail aroundwhat one takes away from this book are great stories' independent on sunday 'fascinating and rewardingplimpton's collage of reminiscence is apt enough for its subject, and fascinatingly (and bitchily) evocative of the man' robert mccrum, observer 'it is at the heart of this book
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2 building set made by plimpton engineering cothis set is complete with the original box, contents and instructions, as shown in the photosthe box has some wear and tear from many years of usevintage bayko nothis item has been owned by me from new
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