I'd say that they were birthday / newborn / baptism gifts for children. Y'know the old adage - 'born with a silver spoon in your mouth'? Well,...
I picked this up on eBay in the UK a couple of weeks back, for an excellent price, and it arrived today. I think it's adorable! [ATTACH]...
Maybe the seller meant Caesar's Palace.
Surely, anything out of Buckingham Palace would have the Royal Cypher on them? Or the royal coat of arms...
I don't know anybody who speaks Japanese, or of any online resources. It's irritating. I bought these because...1...they were cheap. And 2. they...
I don't think this is English/British. For one thing, a duty-stamped piece of silver would've had FIVE marks, not four. Date-mark, maker's mark,...
I feel silly for asking this, but - what does the shape of the handle have to do with the purity/quality of the silver?
How common are they? I'm familiar with ceramic tooth-powder jars / dentifrice jars (I have two in my collection), but never seen any like this.
An ultrasonic cleaning ought to fix that up. Just looking at it, it'd be my opinion that the BASE unscrews, and that you pour the powder...
Yeah but you don't need much tooth-powder to clean your teeth. Even if it is only a couple of inches high, that's a lot of powder. If it is a...
That's a hell of a lot of tooth-powder, though. What else? Talcum powder, maybe? I dunno. It doesn't open up AT ALL?
Very very cool!! Needs cleaning, but still cool!!
I think they're quite cute, yes! I love the little apple-thingies on top. I just hope that there's someone here who can translate Japanese? Once...
Bought this on eBay this week. Arrived express all the way from Osaka... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I don't believe them to be of any...
Gold-FILLING is different from gold PLATING though. Gold-filling is literally a sheet of gold fused to a sheet of brass, so yes, it's much...
In short? No. Yes, gold-plate has real gold, but the gold is literally microscopic. You'd need thousands of pounds of gold-plate scrap before...
It's a Singer 128 from 1910. Hand-cranked vibrating-shuttle model, and it's missing the slide-plate (a very common problem for some reason)....
I suspected that this might be the response I'd get, but hey, at least I tried!! Never mind! I still think it's beautiful. The thing that really...
I don't normally post in here, because I don't normally buy glassware & ceramics. But this was too pretty not to buy, and I felt, for a great...
Great! Something which I've never seen, but have to have! Now I have to track one down, and add it to my collection! I HATE YOU ALL!!!
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