I have nothing to add, except to say: This is a stunning and beautiful piece of Tiffany silverware :)
Faberge Eggs without their trinkets? The world's most expensive Kinder-Surprises? Kitschy souvenirs?
BUNNY!!! Awwwww... *clutches heart* Sweet, sweet fluffiness! Perfect size-comparison.
Brassware - I've always used Brasso. If Brasso alone won't do it, then try adding a bit of umph to it with some 0000-grade (polishing-grade)...
It doesn't look like any ANSETT logo I've ever seen.
It doesn't resemble any logo that I'm familiar with, nor any Australian company/business of which I'm aware. It's definitely not the QANTAS...
Nah... :(
It's an American machine. It was simply SOLD in Australia. Australia, to my knowledge, never manufactured typewriters.
It's a Corona Model #3. In this case "3" would also have referred to the number of banks (rows of keys). This is a three-bank model. Most...
I imagine that the constant pulling and pushing on the drawer pulls wore out the threads or something, so they had to be replaced.
Bureaus, secretaries and rolltop desks are very popular among pen-collectors. They use the drawers and cubbyholes to organise their collections of...
What a stunning desk! The drawers and the brassware are lovely. I wish I had a writing bureau like that.
AJ is right, I don't normally come in here. If the tabletop is a SINGER tabletop, then any full-sized Singer machine (201, 66, 27, etc), will...
Thanks very much :) Glad you found it enjoyable, Figgy!
I would agree. Matchbox holder.
OK. I've finished fanboying over it... The mortar is obviously lathe-spun. You can see the marks on it. The pestle would've been made the same...
OH EETZ GAWGUSS!! :nailbiting::nailbiting::nailbiting: OK. I think it's antique. Victorian at the very least. It has details on it which you...
I wanted the watch stand to be PRACTICAL. Whether or not it was fully restored cosmetically wasn't really important to me. I was more concerned...
Been tinkering with this for the last 2-3 days. I only finished it this morning... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Writers and pen-collectors love antique desks like these, because of all the cubbyholes and drawers to organise their collections in. So there's...
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