Yes, I'm collecting Hauchecorne too when I can found one…:smuggrin:
Just to show you as treen can be made people mad of them, if my wife knows I've show you that, I'm dead, this is my mess not made to be seen…...
Those pieces are presented most often on chimney plates(not sure of my translation) and as most english deco items they were by pairs, when used...
Nice piece after 1891, normally a pair, you can find a lot more on this website with illustrations of good quality.
Same answer, not often find an old one because they are very personal, you can buy new one today by specialists firms and it's an relative...
When it was made by a good craftsman you can close it after more than 200 years easily, especially with hard wood, those made now by hobbyist are...
When you are not very safe with the use of cyanolacrilates bronwen, for glass you need the UV hardening version which doesn't glue under some...
That was only a pastime for rich persons, the others are working to make buttons, boxes, all was made on a lathe. Looking at actual dimensions,...
Thanks to translate my idea, tarnish has a particular aspect when it's silver and is different with silver plate, I have no pieces in the moment...
Lignum Vitae is a typical english word used for gaïac in general without difference between species variants, your box is really a nice item in my...
Gaïac is a wood expensive, and not used for common articles, you found it often mount in silver for trinking vessels or same use, here it's made...
Not Lignum Vitae, but hardwood and old, that's certainly, it is like some 18and 19th century pieces I have from parts of my country where they not...
On the left is as I see your first picture a 15(and a part of a "G") for 15 grms silver weight on the plated material. As said many times by...
A very good looking bowl, on my own experience, looking at this picture especially it seems this "something" plated seems to be brass on the...
On specialist discussions it appears that hey are not all varieties of amber which gives positive results with the UV tests as precised on your...
As you want it in black and there is no black tape in the standard non acid material, you can make it yourself with a black non acid paper around...
It's a formula for the right density, it's 25 cl water and 4 grams salt. Amber is very electrostatic compared to some resins, if you have those...
Have you try the electrostatic capacities ?
This is not a swiss one, the back is not good and the quality is really not as fine, the bone when used id treated like ivory and very white,...
There is neutral material, normally used for medical purpose by the ergotherapist for making orthesis etc… I've test the acidity coefficient at...
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