Is their a photo?
Hi artsfarm if you read the link moreotherstuff provided it talks about the letter in the front of the book which unfortunately is a facsimile of...
Well that is blunt (I don't mean that in a bad way), but at least I feel good about guessing right that someone just stuck a marble in it.
It could be a pencil holder that someone just stuck a marble in.
Hello Larry, I love collecting and polishing rocks, would love to get into making jewelry at some point. (I'm new too):)
I am always buying items and finding interesting things in them, usually I find ephemera in books, but recently I found a 1892 indian head penny...
Is it just me who is seeing a really low resolution image?
I am going to have to say they are soviets because they are wearing papakhas which were used by the soviets during WWI and WWII, they were first...
It is at least 1800 or older because of the wrought iron braces to hold it together, about 1800 they started using joints like the dove tale...
Can you post the best bargain you have gotten. Talk about how you got it please. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I bought this box at a local...
Looks like it may have been a decorative button.
It would make a good christmas tree decoration.:)
I don't know a lot about candlestick holders, but I do know something about the process of casting metal, and yes they did have the technology to...
I'm getting dizzy looking at the photo:). If I'm looking at it from the angle I think I am, that appears to be similar to a snipe-bill hinge,...
I don't think so, if it is hollow that indicates it was probably was cast in large numbers. I wouldn't bet on it unless I saw it so it's more of a...
Hello I am 15 and have been collecting pre 1850 books, maps, and Ephemera since I started reading (about 10 years ago:)). It is sort of strange...
I don't know a lot about furniture so how I usually find the date of an antique piece of furniture by looking at the hardware, usually the screws,...
If this is any help these glasses look very similar to yours and it says they are circa 1800....
Okay I'll post an update when I find more!
Here is a photo I have of Samuel Downing, he fought in the revolutionary war. This photo is out of the book "The last Men of the Revolution." [ATTACH]
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