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ta0

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Children of the world and tops
« on: April 15, 2019, 12:30:45 AM »

These are some great photos I spotted on Flickr.

This is from Northern Thailand. It looks like a whip top.


This is in a Laos album.


This was taken in Puri, India.


From Morocco


From Recife, Brazil:
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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2019, 02:24:22 AM »

Very nice pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2019, 10:10:39 AM »

Those are some great shots!  Look at the size of that string button in the last photo.
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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2019, 03:13:29 AM »

beautiful photos !!

would be great to use them when we refurbish the ITSA website  ;) ;)

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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2019, 08:26:26 AM »

These are some great photos I spotted on Flickr.

This is from Northern Thailand. It looks like a whip top.


Very nice find ta0. This one is my absolute favorite!!!
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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2019, 05:33:29 PM »

Great pics!!!
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the Earl of Whirl

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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2019, 07:59:37 AM »

Here is one more and one of the comments is from a guy who says he is admin. of a group called "spinning tops"!!!



https://durak.org/photos/seandreilinger/724052081/sequoia-moves-stop-spinning-top
« Last Edit: April 20, 2019, 11:45:03 AM by ta0 »
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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2019, 11:44:29 AM »

Here is one more and one of the comments is from a guy who says he is admin. of a group called "spinning tops"!!!
https://durak.org/photos/seandreilinger/724052081/sequoia-moves-stop-spinning-top

The group here is a Flickr group with a zillion photos of tops -- including many vintage and art tops like the ones you see in large collections. The admin goes by "sr_formica". A short way down his Flickr page is a shot of ta0 with Figaro!
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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2019, 11:52:10 AM »

The group here is a Flickr group with a zillion photos of tops -- including many vintage and art tops like the ones you see in large collections. The admin goes by "sr_formica". A short way down his Flickr page is a shot of ta0 with Figaro!
His name is Dani Miras and he is one of the members of the Barcelona collectors club, "Associació Amics de la Baldufa", www.baldufa.com. I visited them in 2009 and he took that photo then.
The photos above I found on the flick group he organized: Flickr spinning top photo pool
« Last Edit: April 21, 2019, 09:34:26 AM by ta0 »
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Re: Children of the world and tops
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2019, 10:21:00 AM »

More kids from the same photo pool.

Instambul, Turkey


Nomad boy with a spinning top around Dasada village, Gujarat, India


Colombia:


Lima, Peru
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The text accompanying this photo is sad. It says that this 4 year-old boy was playing with his top in a market of Lima, but his sister took it because he had to work. Later the photographer found the boy selling cheese and he said his mother had thrown the top into the river . . .

Daxi, Taiwan:

An album with photos of the 2011 spintop festival in Daxi here: link
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