I have a few, but nothing like this!!
Classy and extremely rare.
Here we are. For some stupid reason the images wouldn't upload... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Japanese pens make good beginner pieces. Pilot, for example, and Sailor, make really good quality pens at all price-points. A calligraphy...
While I collect a lot of things, my first love has always been writing instruments and accessories. This last week was the Melbourne Pen and...
What a sweet collection!!
It looks like a pretty standard 144-piece Chinese set, from the 60s, as you say, which would make sense. Certainly still very usable. Best of luck...
Definitely not ivory, or bone. It'll be some variety of plastic. Most likely the Urea formaldehyde, going by the colour.
I just bought one set (about a week ago), and sold another one yesterday. I'll have to upload photos of the set I bought.
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Nice to see that my blog entry proved useful in this thread.
Everybody knows that part of being a responsible and loving pet-owner, is taking your fish for its daily walk. The style of painting looks...
I have seen toothbrush cases, and soap-caddies, made of sterling silver. So it wouldn't surprise me that they have sterling silver toothbrushes,...
Yes I can see that it's new. It'd probably be some touristy thing. But I'd be surprised if it's not a hairpin. It's the right shape for it.
I'm almost certain that it's a hairpin. For those elaborate hairbun-style hairdos that were really popular back in the late 1800s/early 1900s in Asia.
When it comes to doing the skiver, keep in mind that the glue is the only thing holding the wooden writing leaves onto the box. So you gotta put...
I'm very pleased to have it. I just hope I can find someplace nice to display it one day.
I was told that the style was more indicative of Southern China (from which most Peranakan families -- including mine -- have their roots), which...
Give or take an inch, yes. Plenty substantial!
More research, and information gleamed from collectors more knowledgeable than I, seem to confirm my suspicions that the mirror is Peranakan, or...
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