I was wondering if any of you natives could tell me what companies exist as jewelry shops and sporting/camping/hunting stores in Copenhagen. I am working on a Christmas fic where the characters are going to search for things other than books to give each other as Christmas gifts. Many things will have fallen to dust in 90 years but gold and gems will not. And aluminum camping pots will be intact too. Possibly even high grade cast ironware if they were still in boxes and not directly under a waterleak. Guns and ammo locked in a gunsafe could still be fine. If you can think of any other durable product that survived that they might scrounge as presents let me know.
Glass will last for centuries, undisturbed. Aside from glassware (drinking glasses, pitchers, vases, dishes, etc.), jewelry, suncatchers and similar window doodads, and figurines /
artworks, they might also find functional and optical glass: prisms, surveyor's scopes, binoculars, magnifying glasses, telescopes, and so forth. Canning jars, cookware, and lab equipment, too.
Imagine finding
a teapot like this. Or stumbling across
a Baccarat storefront. (Long ago, I had a job at Gumps, a very fancy gift store in San Francisco. On my breaks, I would wander into the art glass department and ogle all the pretty things. Can you tell?
)
I know that glass from pre-industrial eras flows and deforms very slowly over time, which is why stained-glass windowpanes in cathedrals and such are now slightly thicker at the bottom than the top. But I don't know if A) that happens to industrially made high-quality glass, e.g. lead crystal or lab-type borosilicate glass; and B) if 90+ years would be enough to make a piece of industrial glass sag enough to lose its precision. (In other words, would binoculars from Year Zero still work, assuming their other mechanism wasn't rusted/damaged?)
