My bet's on an early plane. Please thank the missus for me. Cheers Stephen
Nice snuffer for $2. That chain really makes it for me.:)
They were all hand cut in the early days so my money is on a professional hand cut. Identifying the picture might give you a better handle on it....
"IF" - big "IF" they have not been re-plated then I would hazard a guess that they are not plated. I'm wondering if the gold color is a trick of...
Any reference indicating China (seen it before etc) or just a feeling???
It shall here in be known as the "Bjørn Wiinblad inspired four faced lidded urn - possibly 1970s". That's an honest selling description I can live...
This four faced lidded urn was listed as a “European pottery face vase” and I suspect that is about as good as it is going to get. The base looks...
This little guy piqued my interest at the local auction so did some googling and found this similar one that sold in April....
Think it might be 22 March 1861. [ATTACH]
Style and butterflies always sells well:D
According to google translate tan mucho ustedes debo que nunca puedo cumplirla tan mucho ustedes quiero se como puedo decirlo so much you must I...
The lidded sugar bowl would sell like hot cakes.
Not a Moorcoft expert but the blue muck on the inside and carelessly applied around the lip makes me very dubious. Has that been applied later?...
Sent a message. Will let you know if I get a response.
Quite true and in some areas such as Egypt it has kept them going for 2,000 years.:bag:
Funny thing about tourist ware. Only the very first tourists got the real stuff and since then the locals probably made only the most...
More research has given me a possible date of around the late fifties early sixties. Found a Sieco brand advertisement stating "established 1945"....
Looks more like modern decor carved to order to me but the back of it is rough polished and not perfectly smooth so maybe modern tourist wear. Any...
If moth eaten water stained paper and rodent chewed wood constitute patina then this has it in spades. It's an old(?) poster for "Star" brand...
Think it is a fractional distiller used to distill off chemicals at differing temperatures. A reasonably common piece of chem lab gear.
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