Is it ceramic or gilt metal? It looks more elaborate than anything I have seen but I have no real idea. Sorry. The better pictures will help others.
Can you show the fake mark? Just curious.
I'd bet the farm on that not being brass.
It's partly my old eyes and partly the terrible photography, but I simply cannot make anything out in your photos to comment on. I recomment more...
The small letter over a dot looks like a 19th C abbreviation convention to me. I have seen similar in watch cases I know to be 19th C.
Back in the 50s and 60s everyone and his dog were converting cheaply available ex-military rifles to sporting use. 'Guns and Ammo' was full of...
They are from the luxury version of Monopoly, the one where the get out of jail free card works with real jails.
I have had a couple of these over the years, they would fetch about the equivalent of $200 during what now seems to have been the clock boom of 20...
Well, the information is generally applicable to most watches, wrist and pocket. and worth a try before spending what I consider a huge amount of...
He is charging over $100 per hour. Nice work if you can get it. If there is nothing actually wrong with it, no broken spring or broken balance...
Did the repairer say what was wrong with it, to justify that kind of charge? It sounds like a 'Go away and don't bother me' quote to me.
The interesting thing about this picture is that it depicts a mid 19th C 'transitional' steam ship, when sails were still used to some extent to...
The relatively small size tends to condemn it to scrap, the small market for solid gold watches wants men's full size watches, to wear or collect,...
You'd need to pop the movement out (unless you can establish the weight of that exact movement some other way) to get the gold weight. The gold...
Get the file out. In the unlikely event it was real it would still be scrap.
The cages are crab pots.
It is not really worth investing more than a few dollars in it. Indeed, the crutch part with the slot should be horizontal, not vertical as shown....
I cannot see it very well, but the pendulum hangs from a 'leader' that goes from the flexible suspension at the top to the crutch and through it,...
Calling Napoleonic war prisoner products 'trench art' is a step much too far. The category of 'Prisoner of war work' is well established and also...
I have never seen anything like it. Some may be old enough to understand what I mean when I refer to it as a Heath Robinson gadget. It...
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