Thought my friends over the pond might be interested in seeing this photo :) As always, apologies for the watermarks but this is as we listed on...
As per title, I cant make up my mind whether this started life as a wall/table lamp or not. Gut feel says not. The lever allows the top section...
So the question is, from high to low, can you order the following fishy items in terms of value? (please note these have only just been bought as...
Monogram, address, signature. How easy is this? Except 4 hours in and neither my wife nor I can work out who this is. The reference to Baskett...
Interesting letter, we think 1851, written by a Catholic. I've got this listed for sale as unidentified, but if anyone can make out the signature...
I know very little about jewelry and said to a lady at a recent auction more in hope than expectation "there's nothing good in that lot, is...
I'm just one of 140 solid lead soldiers from a marching band. We are 2.75" tall and play drums, trumpets, fifes and horns. I'm a horn player :)...
I think some of the ephemera has been far too easy to identify lately ;) So have a go at this! [IMG]
This crabbed letter was written a year before his death. I can make out Lieber, then I get stuck! [IMG] [IMG]
Loads of info in the letter date 1910/11 (edited date), I just wonder if Woodbern ever succeeded in tracing his links to the English nobility?...
We bought this large covered cheese dish for the striking pattern It looks to be c 1870 and Staffordshire to me, but despite the backstamps...
This is an odd one. A semi literate faded note with a transcript to back. I have no idea whether this is genuine 18th century or a later scrawl...
Any ideas on identifying this coach. His writing is marginally better than mine! (ps, this is item 200 (ish) in the vast ephemera lot we bought...
This letter has had 2-3 hours of our research time yet the identity of the sender is proving remarkably elusive. The addressee is probably Janet...
Something is nagging at me about this photo, like I should recognise the scene. Pantomime Dame? Melodrama? But no joy :( [IMG]
1686? Toulouse and Montauban stamp Cannot make out what it says :( [IMG] [IMG]
We recently bought about 50 handkerchiefs, which appear to be mementos of people and places in the States in the 1930s. We have done no research...
We bought several boxes of old letters and autographs. Hard enough to decipher at best of times but this 1770 document has us stumped! There is...
Bought some old oil lamps, two came with globe shades. Just looked at one shade and the decorative clear glass centre pattern is not engraved...
Who made these two studio pottery cows? Different glazes but one potter judging by the modelling. One has a clear impressed mark but I've had no...
Separate names with a comma.
