To my eye, both front and back appear to show pressed horn rather than bog oak - this sales description shows the same 'bog oak' brooch as Debora...
[ATTACH] ~Cheryl
Can be difficult to firmly attribute armorials - the shield is impaled on this one, indicating a union, the left side would be the husband's coat...
Have such a weakness for the Norwegian loop-handled sugar spoons, purchased my first, shown below in the first pic, over twenty years ago on eBay,...
And still owned by a member of the Vaugoin family... ~Cheryl
Okay, on mine, from where the stem joins the bowl to the tip of the finial measures 17.8 cm - the interior diameter of the loop is 2 cm. That was...
Nice lot, Kyra - love the little 'bucket' tea strainer! It's a sugar spoon, despite their so often being described tea caddy spoons - don't know...
Jarosinski & Vaugoin, Vienna - still in business, and probably still making your classic cups in various sizes... ~Cheryl
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It's a bit largish for a miniature, though scale varies widely - doesn't mean anything, but ran through my two books on silver miniatures and...
The 'D' and the 'MC'/'MG' are Dutch pseudo-marks used by Rinze Jans Spaanstra, the official lion-passant looks like it probably has a '2'...
20th century rather than 19th, no size mentioned, but would think a sugar shovel......
Not that it has anything to do with this pendant, which is an original item produced by Wallace silversmiths (with that particular trademark not...
Not that pendants, the ubiquitous rings, and other jewelry wasn't/isn't made from flatware, but Wallace produced these flatware pattern pendants...
Eh, squished bottom-marked spoon hallmarks can be aggravating, and this one looks like it's an overstrike as well - suspect this is your maker:...
On the subject of funny noises and names - I have a couple of Wade gluggle jugs packed away somewhere... [ATTACH] https://wadeceramicsusa.com/...
Tagua, corozo, coquilla, vegetable ivory, are all the same - the natural color can range from cream to a medium brown, depending on processing,...
What - you've never watched Star Trek and scoped out the bottles, etc.? http://www.quarksbarb.com/details/bottles.html [ATTACH] Though I like...
Was poking around researching my French silver brooch set with glass and ran across this piece, not the first I've seen with similar design - it...
Those are very nice, and a great buy. The round cold-painted is marked as Czech, and the horseshoe motif would also be Czech, both 1920s-'30s -...
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