...but the results are worth it!... [ATTACH] Compared with when I started: [ATTACH]
Repainting antique mahjong tiles will give you a seriously crook neck... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I found ANOTHER mahjong set at the flea-market yesterday!! It's from the 1920s. Nice, thick, chonky bone tile-fronts. [ATTACH] The set is...
They sell well, if you can find the right buyers. I picked one up for $5.00 and sold it for nearly $300.
I'm sure they don't bite. It's fine.
In 1940, Underwood created a GIANT UNDERWOOD MASTER TYPEWRITER as a publicity stunt. It was melted down a year later in 1941, because they...
Thanks. I actually find the coin-belts extremely interesting, just because they're so customisable. They were made of literally whatever coins the...
The decorated bolster was draped across the marriage bed, so they were usually quite long.
The collection as of today... [ATTACH] ...so that makes the collection fully 2/3 solid silver.
Keeping in touch with your Irish roots, are yah, laddie? But yeah, coin belts like these were basically the lower-end of Peranakan silver belts....
Hah!! It'll be a heavy necklace!! Here it is on the scale... [ATTACH]
Thanks. It's summer in Australia right now, so I'm mostly wearing sarongs around the house, because of the heat. Here's me wearing the belt...
HAHA!! No!! The only Peranakan belt I have which DOES fit is one of my ancestors' ones (the one that you see in my profile-pic). The other...
Yes, I bought another one. I've never had a Peranakan silver coin-belt, before. I know they exist, and I've seen photos of them, but I've never...
Wow. Honey-glazed mahjong tiles. Leave to marinate for 50 years and then serve on a square table in neatly stacked rows. And yes, old tiles do...
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I agree, the end-loop looks like it's designed to hook onto a button. My guess is that some fabric, or a strap...
It's not a needle threader, I've got two of those old Singer threaders already.
I bought a whole heap of antique sewing-thingies today, and this spring-loaded thingybob was part of the mass of rufflers, hemmers, piping-feet,...
All mounted!!... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
For those who are struggling to understand how these things work - here's a demonstrative photograph from the aforementioned Michael Backman:...
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