I figured it out. Mine says "DARLENE". You can go to https://ogham.co/ then type in the alphabet instead of a word, and you will then see the...
Thank you! I had no idea about that language. Now I need to get it translated.
I too have an ASC pendant whose maker I cannot determine. My date mark is a "J" in an octagon, 1996 (but there is an inscribed date of 10-2-46...
I guess in the Roaring '20s nobody thought Losing Everything was a possibility. Kinda like these days, but I'm no financial expert.
BUY LOW, SELL HIGH, WORK, HIRE ASSISTANT, PLAY GOLF, and LEAVE EARLY . . . but you're right, it needed more options in the run-up to 1929
Nope, it's a holder for a 1920s sterling silver stock brokers dreidel (Gorham), that's what it is. Picked it up today at an estate sale. [ATTACH]...
@Any Jewelry True, this is on the small side for a quaich, but not unusually small. Mexico is not exactly tea territory either, unless you count...
A few other Spratling tea strainers, all from the same period: A direct link does not work, but they are on the spratlingsilver.com site under...
@DragonflyWink and Any Jewelry Well, isn't that something! I dug deep; don't think the strainer part was there. Exact same size and shape as a...
Good money is always good. I buy and sell lots of cool things, but silver I keep. Here's the other item I got, with an unusually sharp hallmark....
Thank you, all
Any Spratling experts here? I picked up two William Spratling objects at an estate sale yesterday (for pennies). One of them is a quaich. I’ve...
Yes, other sources say pre-Columbian (the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans). I'm surprised that there...
I think I may have picked up a genuinely old, old Hopi pot today at an estate sale. Six inches in diameter x 4.5 inches tall. Two old cracks....
Yes, the legs are hollow. In one of the above photos you can see the little air escape holes at the tip of each leg (but inside the bowl the legs...
I often do that sort of thing myself. It wouldn't be hard in this case. Two of legs are indented to varying degrees, but somehow it stands level...
@johnnycb09, Yes, it could be a brandy warmer, but a bit small for me at slightly under 3" diameter. If you google image search for sterling wood...
@Bakersgma, Yes, maybe not fishes. Here's a new angle. [ATTACH] . . . and after polishing, there's more detail to the 13. Looks like 13-1/3,...
@moreotherstuff, I don’t see any hieroglyphs, but while waiting for the experts here, I polished it up. I was worried because that dark spotted...
I'm having a difficult time identifying this one. Any ideas? Single-serve wooden handled creamer. three marks: 3 fishes? or? ML 13½L...
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