Thank you for your advice.
Thank you for your input.
I'm trying to be more discriminating in what I buy. It has to be put somewhere, and I'm very short on space, and I have realised that the...
Thank you for this link. I don't have access to the piece but if my memory serves me correctly it seems very much in the Karatchi-Kutch style.
Good Day For some time now I have been admiring a small, heavily decorated, bowl at the stall at one of our antique fairs. It is about 4cm in...
If you don't mind, what is the "bale" of a pocket watch?
I thought it would be Egyptian because it belonged to a person who lived in Cairo for many years during the first quarter of the last century. But...
Is the town mark the squiggle that appears at the base of the 9? Are you saying that at some stage in the past Egyptian marks did have the...
Good Day All I think the marks on this teaspoon are Arabic. The mark on the far right looks so familiar to me that I'm sure I've seen it before,...
I've often seen those double handled dishes referred to as "nut dishes", but I have no idea if that is correct.
I agree that it is a purely decorative item depicting the Madonna. It looks Scandinavian art glass of the 1950s or 1960s to me. Orrefors, Iittala,...
"Five o'clock spoon" is not a term I've heard before. Is it American parlance for what others would call a "teaspoon"?
I wonder why they use "84" to signify 87.5 purity?
On the question of knowing the name of a pattern, I don't sell my stuff (not yet anyhow) but I like to know the pattern name if it had one.
It's great to see this kind of detailed, educational, explanation.
They've polished up beautifully. What a thrilling find!
It seems to be an elusive one!
That's what it looks like to me too, but one can't be categorical because the marks are just too unclear. So I'm open to other suggestions. V R...
That's a possibility too. The thing is that I have looked at all the V combinations on the 925-100, silver makersmarks.co.uk, and the site that...
What a wonderful find! And nice clear hallmarks too.
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