Mortar.
Without seeing several, high-quality photos of the watch, there's nothing we can tell you about it. But 935 is the Swiss standard for silver, as...
Steel pens started being made in the late 1820s/early 1830s. The pen holder looks to be made of bone, rather than ivory. Age? Anyone's guess....
Last time I checked, rubber bands stain silver because it has sulphur in it. The sulphur leeches out of the rubber and marks the silver. I think...
People do some stupid stuff to their antiques in the name of "improving" them. Like, if the piece is COMPLETELY trashed and can't be rescued, by...
Ammonia is great for loosening off gunk. I daresay in the right concentration it would do the same to the lacquer, without harming the silver.
Honestly, I would hesitate to use anything really aggressive on silver. If you can find a gentle cleaner or something else that'll strip the...
If it's peeling, shouldn't it just peel off on its own?
Age: Old. Origin: Someplace, somewhere. It looks like an ordinary, lathe-spun brass or bronze mortar. There would've been millions of these...
If you restored it and sold it, you might get $50.00 for it. The problem with straight razors is that, unless they're REALLY OLD, or REALLY NICE,...
Hey folks. I bought some antique silver mate straws and they just arrived in the post. I noticed that they have the same mark as another straw...
That's the model I have. Been using it for over a decade.
CAN it be restored? Most definitely. To like-new condition, if you really wanted to try, but as Evelyb says, it'd cost far more to do that than...
Hey folks. The machine is a Singer Model 27 / 28 (there's not much difference between them), likely from the early 1900s. I can't see the...
For SINGER yes, but I dunno about Wertheim. I have friends who run a sewing machine museum and repair-service in Victoria, but they're the only...
Here's a few examples in sterling silver. These are all identified as pin-cushions: [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
I am ALMOST certain that this is a pin-cushion. I've seen similar examples in the past. It would've hung on a chatelaine or be part of a sewing...
Wertheim was a fairly famous company, but it wasn't as big as say, Frister & Rossmann, Siedel & Naumann, the big German sewing-machine companies...
It's a vibrating shuttle machine, from the early 1900s in all likelihood. It can be restored, but the cost would be more than the machine is worth...
Wertheim was a German sewing machine company (established and headquartered in Frankfurt) with branches in Australia (in particular, Melbourne)....
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