Antiques Board

Story is mostly about LA's Dutch Chocolate Shop but talks about some others.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/...as_centuryold_batchelder_tile_masterpiece.php

Latest find. Antiques fair in town.

Le Maire of Paris theater glasses. Engraved: "Xmas, 1885"

130 years ago, someone got themselves one hell of a nice Christmas present!!

First picture is of my Grandfather, with his team of horses, breaking sod in Tony, Wisconsin, 1928.

Second picture was taken in June 1929. Grandfather is 'plowing' the garden with my father riding the huge, white horse.

Sadly, my Grandfather lost his farm during The Great Depression.

Hi,
I came across this photo and just had to share,
greg

Hi, this has been in the family forever. Its sterling but not marked,just some faint scratched in initials and numbers on the base,possibly homemade?.
Because of the flames on the front I thought it was for holding matches? Could it also be for tea?[

Just had to say a big thank you to Marie for repairing one of my favorite vintage pins. This was my aunt's and had lost a couple of stones. Now I can wear it!

I bought this today. And it's beeeyoooteeeful.




Operational lock & key


Upon first opening. Lid flips over to produce writing-surface (complete with original blotting-paper)


Original inkwell (very rare), and storage-compartment (needs a bit of repair)....

Sewing machines have always fascinated me. Probably because my grandmother was a dressmaker for 40 years.

Either way, I've always loved antique sewing machines. Their beauty and decorations, their functionality, and the fact that they were one of the marvels of 19th century design, styling and engineering.

I have two sewing machines. My grandmother's which I inherited when she died, and this one:



I bought this in 2012 and it took me two years to restore it. I had to find bobbins, attachments, the oil-can, the lid, the key, the second cover-plate, I had to clean it, oil it, scrub it over to remove 80 years of dust and grime. I had to fix the hand-crank and the bobbin-winder (it took three attempts but I finally got it working flawlessly!)....

I've shown these elsewhere, but I thought that I'd make a dedicated thread for them, as well.







The Historical Context

What you're looking at here are a pair of solid silver Peranakan nyonya dress belts.

Peranakan (also called "Straits Chinese") were the descendants of Chinese merchants who married the native peoples of the Malay Peninsula, between the 15th and 19th...

I had purchased an atomizer a few months ago and have been going slightly mad looking for an atomizer bulb to fit it. I was pretty much at my wits end trying to find one that would fit this Czech bottle.

I had posted for some help here and a few folks offered u ideas and took a look through their stashes to see if the could come up with anything.

Bercrystal found a couple of bulbs she thought might work and graciously offered them up to me. I received the bulbs yesterday and unfortunately they didnt fit, but I was not about to let that stop me. I had read online about swapping out the fitting on the bulb with one of the correct size. I had the original from my atomizer and figured I would at least take a look at it. Well, it was going to be too big to do the swap, so I was back to square one.

I work in a field where sometimes you need to make things work, so I can usually come up with a viable alternative.

I decided this morning to make an adapter that would screw into my...