It's the good way, if you want more security, rinse with half a decilitre of white spirit you can reuse, as it's water absorbent and make the rest...
Thanks, it's the same word used as in french then, this friend explain me that with a high quality decanter where you let some water when...
Years ago I've worked on that problem with a technician in the glass factory of Saint-Prex, one of the most important in Switzerland, and he...
I've found some more infos about the use of the grey-blue color which was very "tendance" in US at the end of the 19th century, I make a scan of...
What intrigues me is it's perfectly clean, you can just obtain this result with ultrasonic cleaning, result of flies are the most difficult thing...
About 10-15 years ago you can find on London place a lot of phrenological heads, I bought a small one for curiosity but they are clearly repros...
I've found in one of my books a picture of the same use of scrolls in painted wood, here it is in the Baroque period for Switzerland, you can...
It seems that you don't well understand my bad english, what I say is if you can find anything made with metal which has the characteristics of an...
I'm really not an expert about English clocks design but I repair them for a lot of reasons as "official" offices can't make escapement wheels or...
It's a very simple way to know if the movment is 18 or 19th century, on the pillar on the left of your picture, measure it on each end and in the...
It's 100 years old, what make me say it's not a piece of folk art from the Alps too is that they are no way to rad the pictures painted, on pieces...
Painted wood boxes with such hinges are common in the Alps part of europe but here the design is really not what we call "Alpenländisch" as you...
Without better pictures, impossible to say something precise for the price, if it functions and you like it it's a bargain for Chrismas. More...
Some news about those hallmarks, for Friedrich August Thuemmel they are only occurrences from the website silberpunze and I can't have any contact...
If you know that is Odiot is an answer for me, they are certainly made for american taste, what think american members ? Casters made special...
Those are very good quality, 20th century in my opinion, this finish and design is like Louis XV but reinterpreted, fixation screws can say me a...
Thanks a lot for your help, the solution Dragonfly find seems to be the good one, and the rest of the discussion is very interesting !
I just finish to clean a pair of good silver candlesticks, just a part of the lot I have to clean before Christmas, why people don't give them in...
There is a first and simple sign of quality you can look in a second, when the "gildind" is under the piece same as on the visible part is a sign...
Welcome Nick, Impossible to say who make them, they were a lot of founders who buy models and make ovecasts as those candlesticks, 514 is...
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