It is French, a basic timepiece in a carriable design, not a carriage clock. It is slow and fast on the cylinder escapement, essentially a block...
Why is it like a raven?
No one will care who made them. Find a ships chandlers website and check out the price of a new pair. You might get half of that.
That looks like a bog standard quartz movemen with a normal battery and battery life.
They are obviously bronze, a good quality pair, since galvanised steel is the cheapest alternative. Note the little holes in the ends for a thong...
The term is usually 'moon phase' dial. In the 18th C. the amount of moonlight would govern going out at night. A few days ago I was in mid-Wales,...
When I was about ten or twelve, we made wooden swords for 'swordfighting', I wish I'd had that then, although I expect it would have been...
No need to be delicate with it. The odd key is almost certainly just there and has nothing to do with anything. Any key that fits will do for...
I also have a stamp collection. As a boy it taught me about ten different names for shades of red, and that Carmine and Vermillion were not an...
The history of the financial collapse of much of Europe after WWI is very interesting, quite hard to understand 100 years later, but these notes,...
I once bought a 104 piece 4 kilos weighable set of German .800 silver flatware at auction because at the time no-one else seemed to have any idea...
The movement is a routine French timepiece movement, the whole thing is about 1890 - 1910, give or thake, and the case appears to be ebonised...
Derivative of Landseer's Monarch of the Glen.
Do you have hidden talents? I have no visible ones.
It seems to be see-through, which rules out belly dancing I don't see why. Anyway, surely it would have a cloth lining, or be rather uncomfortable.
At first glance it appears to be a ceramic case, possibly Royal Bonn, with an American, or German movement. If you have documentation, what is...
I have one of those. You may find more examples if you search for Vineyard clock (...
Beavis and Butthead do Japan.........
What a bunch of feckwits! I could not stand more tha a few minutes of it. They appear to be in Japan, lets hope the house belongs to some Yakuza...
Singapore might be the location, I can't see why not The boats abd their construction are essentially English.
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