Is this anything?
 

I know what it is, but is it anything?
Is it worth trading, or does everyone who knows what it is, already have one?

If you want it, let me know.

Not this... I know this is something.

That's the tin from a Velox patch kit for sewup tires. We sold those in the shop I worked in in in the early 1980's; your specimen may be earlier or later but I don't know by how much. It came with glue, patches, needle, stout linen thread wrapped on a cardboard bobbin, a little chromed steel cheese grater and a yellow plastic thimble.

I think I have one, and there may even be something in it. Can't speak for the glue, though.

I bought it new with my '73 Raleigh International, it had sew-up tires.

So there's probably a million of these around?
Thought it might go into someone's collection, I already have plenty of guitar pick boxes.

I'll trade you a new box of Rema patches (plastic box) for that.

I like to use classic patch kit boxes to hold my guitar picks.

Done.
PM for addresses.

I used that box to keep my unmentionable supplies when I was a freshman in college.

They had those back then? ;)

^^^

Yeah, but he's so old they were made from bark. Hee hee. (credit Gilbert Godfried at Hugh Hefner's Roast).

J

It just occurred to me that he might have meant another type of supplies. You know, the kind for smoking.

That was also bark......

Well, it is definitely something. I don't think it is just anything. But, it's also not nothing. Therefore, it has to be something but not just anything. It is quite a particular something, I suspect.

I have a bunch of NOS Velox kits from the late 70's or early 80's that were with all the parts a friend gave me from his closed bike repair shop, some of the tins are in poor shape from the way they were stored others look good. When I checked them out a few feel like the glue might have survived others are dry but everything else in the kits are like new still. When I get the chance I will check them out some more and add them to my pay it forward pile I have going, I'll never use them clinchers only for me.

Plus I have enough containers for my unmentionable supplies :)

Wasn't it made of goat intestines or something like that back then?

With all this mention of unmentionables, pardon me for mentioning this, but you're not supposed to mention them.

The first rule of fight club is...

I pass my word that this box has never been used for unmentionables.

You can fit underpants into that little box?

We don't talk about that either.

Can we add Jumanji to the list too?

What about Beetlejuice?

Beetlejuice?

Beatlejuice?

Beetlejuice?