It was fun to watch how excited the appraiser was! I have to admit, I was salivating over the research and historical value of that ledger. If I...
Lovely thing! Unfortunately, I now have a whole new category of expensive things I want :arghh:
Apparently they made silver plated items as well, so maybe one of the silver sites/guides can provide some company info.
I’m afraid all I know is that I think it’s pretty.
That’s an excellent idea!
Definitely smaller than I thought! Still could have been meant to slide onto a ribbon. Here’s some examples of ribbon chokers. Fancier and...
If it’s a button, it would probably be sewn on by passing the thread through the shank (between the bar and the button face). One would have to...
I got fixated on the Dwight D. Judd & Co Insurance calendar, and the cartoon of a hobo over it. Sadly all I came up with so far is the need to...
Welcome aboard! Beautiful find.
I do have the app (got sucked in by my little brother) but there’s little to no info there. It says “vintage and new” and “authentic sterling...
Well, I’m definitely not alone in struggling with getting good close up shots. You have my deepest empathy. I used to have a set of clip on...
Heavens, that’s lovely!
I can’t tell if one end of the cross bar on the back was originally attached to the decorative part. If it wasn’t, perhaps it was meant to slide...
It looks to me like it once said something on the bottom; I played with contrast a bit: [ATTACH]
A friend of mine had something similar come with a scale, and it held the smallest weights, but she wasn’t sure it was original. She *was* sure...
Delicious! Can we get a shot of the nibs? It isn’t uncommon to have nibs from different times and places in a set that has actually been used,...
Absolutely stunning work. A friend of mine once said some restorations count against your sins when your soul is weighed; I’m pretty sure this is...
I just drooled on my phone.
Beautiful photographs! The second one looked familiar to me, so I showed them to my Dad who has a terrifyingly good mental catalog of film...
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