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Hallo Brian and welcome to the oracle. Using the old saying that its better to teach a man how to fish than catch fish for him, here’s a page where your answers are all provided
If you get stuck, Bart will explain it to you.
You probably had a chance to look at the other inquiries on this forum about electroplate crumb trays. They all look remarkably the same.
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Thanks just have to find the date.
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Here’s a. plain fiddle one also by Elkington with no brush.
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In Mexico this item is called a pollito. Why? Because it picks up all the crumbs. I have sat at outdoor tables in restaurants as far north as Quebec and south to New Zealand and the humble house sparrow does the chicken’s job.
Passer Domesticus (PD) is global. Brought across the ocean as pets by Georgian sailors they are everywhere. I was sharing a table, complete with white table cloth in a rather up market Hawaiian restaurant and PD was taking care of crumbs from a particularly well baked roll plate in which I lost interest.
I passed the entire plate and roll across the table to my guest. He looked at it, then at me and pecked at it speculatively. He knew he had a problem because he had an audience. Another smaller female sparrow, perhaps his wife and a couple of locals both with the distinctive black eye masks all house sparrows wear were watching with anything but casual interest.
He couldn’t abandon it, and would lose face and his dinner as it was too big for him to tackle alone.
Realizing I had committed a table manners faux pas, I took the plate back and broke the roll into bits.
At this point, perhaps accepting sharing was inevitable with so much largess, my dinner companion switched from aggressive defender to tolerant if not gracious host and the meal and the crumbs were finished in peace.
A truly crumby meal!
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