This had been on-offer at my local-flea market for something approaching a year, and today, I finally decided to buy it. I was told an elaborate...
If it's judaica...and it certainly looks like it...then it's almost definitely sterling silver. Nice little goblet.
I think it's McCoudrey or some variant of that. It looks more like "Mc" than "Mr". So it's "First Officer McC---drey".
L-R, I'm reading: "Presented to First Officer McCaudery"
Sewing machines like these were originally just bare steel underneath. Then they were covered in layer after layer of black "Japanning" paint, and...
If you post more photos of the machine, I should be able to tell you more. In an ideal world, we'd have the serial-number records, but a lot of...
Oh look! An instruction manual for the Wertheim PLANET sewing machine......
For the sake of comparison, here's my Wertheim from 1910... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks AJ. Wertheim was a German sewing machine company, originally based in Frankfurt. It was up there with the likes of Frister & Rossmann,...
I had a mahjong set yanked because I said it was "bone and bamboo" (which a lot of vintage sets were, and still are). eBay: "What kind of bone!?...
Because this guy has been doing this stuff for decades. He's a regular at high-end antiques fairs around town. As for @Any Jewelry - the glaze...
He originally wanted an obscene amount of money for it - I think somewhere in the region of $1,500+. That dropped to around $750, then about $400....
For what it's worth, I've purchased antiques online which, when they arrived at my door, turned out to be ivory, and this was done through eBay,...
I don't usually venture into the realm of porcelain and glassware, but this piece just sang to me. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Ivory would be "cleaner" than that. That said - most people these days wouldn't recognise ivory if you hit them in the face with it. I've bought...
The engraving is "J.H.". The stamp-mark is "M.H.".
"Coin silver" was a mark used exclusively in America, as far as I know. So the chances of it also being English are very slim, if those marks are...
Japanese "Pure silver" is 950, I believe. I have some pieces of Chinese silver which is literally pure (999), so I could definitely believe that.
Just because something SAYS "pure silver" doesn't mean it IS pure silver...or even silver at all (found that out the hard way). That said, the...
When my grandmother was in a nursing home, the nurses who worked there still wore very traditional nursing uniforms (and this was only like 10...
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