As I said in my previous post, I've been fixing and collecting more or less my whole life. It became 'official' in 2005 when I finished...
No silver, no :P But I do like the fan. I have a thing for folding fans and I've never seen a bone one like this in this sort of condition. Most...
I didn't think it was that old, but the condition of the bone (it's starting to warp and curve) made me think that it was at least a few decades old.
Nothing too fancy. Bought this carved bone folding fan today. Not sure how old it is, but it looks like it's been around the block a few times,...
'84' is '84 Zolotnik', if I remember my Russian marking. Which is about 88% silver.
Interesting piece. Pity it's mounted in pewter and not silver.
I cannot imagine sauerkraut going well with fish. Of any kind. And especially not with silver!! :o
I don't doubt that! I don't even know what it is, really. I assumed it was meant to be a presentation cup or gift beaker or something. There's NO...
Thanks for the help, guys! My highschool-level German is fairly decent, and I'm sure if the text was clearer I would've figured out most of it on...
Oooooh!! OK I got the answer now. Hof Silber Arbeiter. "Court silversmith". Cool! :P Thanks folks.
"Bayer." would be short for "Bayern" or Bavaria, yes. But I still can't figure out what Hoffilber is. No translations or dictionaries I've looked...
Aaaaand that's just about the limit of my highschool German. Bought this at the flea-market today and I'm having a LOT of trouble translating...
M&W is indeed, for Mappin & Webb, a very famous British silversmithing firm (still around today). They would've been both the manufacturer AND...
Could be an unfinished project? Some homemade metalwork thing?
I don't think it's a mortar and pestle or a piston, but I reckon you sure as hell could use it as a mortar and pestle. I assume that the 'pestle'...
You're in the right place and in good company here, then. I was a bit like you. I visited antiques shops regularly from the age of five or six....
Wikipedia sez... "...Traditionally, it is made from tea leaves, yak butter, water, and salt, although butter made from cow's milk is increasingly...
Sure it does! You just need a sharp-enough chopstick!! :P Amateur! :D
What kind of sewing machine did you have in mind for this desk? I love antique sewing machines. I have a few myself.
This could just be me speaking out my ass, but I have heard it said that the less metalwork there is in a piece of furniture, the older it is,...
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