It does seem quite routine. I advise always discarding poor pictures and trying again, The sincerity of an apology for poor pictures seems...
What a peculiar thing. I have seen nothing like it and find it hard to see a use for it. It does seem to be of reasonable quality. I think rather...
The watch is a routine Swiss lever escapement, going barrel watch from the time the case was made, a bit late for key winding but the makers...
You could possibly screw it on to a cloud chamber to picture particle tracks?
I too have bowls of these. The most expensive are malachite, blue john and lapis lazuli. Most are marble or other stone like agate and granite,...
Looks more like brass to me. I think copper would be an odd choice of material but as usual I may be wrong.
The post above pretty well says it all. Search for an ogee weight (30 hour) to replace your missing weight or boil up some lead and cast one...
Buy a key star or spider key on ebay or Amazon. Costs about the same as a single key and is usually all the keys you will ever need. It's not all...
Appropriate terms : a trefid rat-tail spoon, I don't know the marks but I'd say it is that style rather than that period..
Almost the only information in those pictures is that you have at least one hand and no photgraphic ability, Place the item on a neutral...
It has a countwheel strike on a coiled metal gong. If it is wound up, the most probable reason for it not running is thst it is out of beat. When...
The clock movement has winding holes for time and strike. There is no chance that it chimes and the strike is probably on a bell or gong in the...
By the time the Weimar hyperinflation ended that coin was three million million paper marks. I supect the actual dish is post WWII, though....
The movement is a Seth Thomas deadbeat escapement of the Brocot style, probably from around 1900, quite good quality for an American clock...
I have no idea where you are in the world, things may be different, but in the UK and possibly elsewhere, never go to a jewellery shop. They just...
You could be right.
I really must make more effort. I want a coffee pot like that simply because I have not got one. Good find, they are much scarcer than teapots for...
Stylistically it does have the subtle look of American coin silver of the period, just slightly different from English pieces of basically the...
When this clock was made the alternatives commonly used were bronze and spelter. Both were gilded. It would be extremely uncmmon to find brass,...
Bells are usually silvered bronze. Nothing to do with the metal of the case. Note the bell nut goes back on thin end inward.
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