The only readable mark is the maker's mark, but that might be enough to date it. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The mark is a style typical of...
This box is about 20 inches long. It is wood with inlay and the lid has brass fancy work let into a slightly lower area. The odd thing is that...
About 4 inches dia, by 1/3 inch thick. Possibly 16th C and I think I can make out one word, German for 'of the city'. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Brass studded boards, some loss at start and finish, tear to map of Caanan, relatively late as the King James version had been published 3 years...
This is about a foot across, red earthenware, the lid is not a real lid, just part of the body. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Any...
No idea at all about this. I do not imagine a single apaulette is all that desirable. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Some of you with long memories will remember that late last year I posted a bit about a house clearance I hoped to do, where an old recluse had...
The Edinburgh Evening Courant, single folded 4 pages, original paper, not a repro. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] While riffling through some old papers, arty Edwardian in tone, I found a manuscript letter headed with a little sketch in ink and wash,...
Over the years I have bought the occasinal office calculating machine, from the older like this Muldiva [ATTACH] To the day before yesterday's...
The artist should have called it a day and come back when the sun was shining. [ATTACH]
Purple sequins, anyone? [ATTACH] This Liberty labelled quilted jacket feels a bit silky. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] No idea of the age of this...
Any ideas where this may originate. It came with a stack of African ethnographic material years ago and I have not yet found the right occasion to...
I don't suppose there is any chance they used real solid gold beads to weigh them down? [ATTACH]
Approx 8 by 12 inch document of a legal nature, dated January 1729, not all that easy to read, a scrivener's scribble with a good few blots. If I...
I have had this cheque writing machine for more than a decade, it has been all over the place, and no-one has ever shown any interest in it. It's...
A pair of framed Japanese (?) pictures and text. I have no idea what they might be. [ATTACH] and the other one. [ATTACH]
An odd little fish shaped box, tapered at one end to a fishy tail, shaped at the other end in a fish mouth, slightly carved in the body and...
Single light card advert for 'Miss Bloch & Miss Sachs' Costumes for Balls, Routs,etc. Size is about 8 by 5 inches. The addresses given in Fitzroy...
Or not. The work of Peter Tarrent, Birmingham 1960s. Innocence and experience? [ATTACH] I have 2 more, rediscovered in a pile of pictures....
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