This is just my opinion, but this doesn't look like any kind of samovar that I've ever seen.
A young lady I know at the flea-market had a friend of hers helping her out that day at her stall. I'd met him once or twice before and apparently...
Here we are. The only place I could even find a PHOTOGRAPH of a bell punch was on the tram museum website... [IMG] The cylinder underneath the...
They had a whole box of ticket punches for sale. Back in the old days (I'm talking like, 1880s-1930s) conductors used to have bell-punches. The...
I went to my local tram-museum today. While I was moseying around, I noticed a few bits and bobs for sale at the gift-shop out the front. Since I...
The bumblebee is the Le Maire trademark/logo. Not sure about the S.
Both bezels have "HAMILTON" on them.
Victorian-era propelling pencils. Very neat. I have a few of these in ivory and silver. Some with matching pens.
Yes, they can be found everywhere NOW. But not 90 years ago. The whole glass-back 'see-through skeletonisation' thing is a modern touch. Back when...
I don't know why the watch is set out the way it is. But it is. I agree it's not the most ideal way to put a watch together that has to be opened...
After a closer examination, I discovered that the bezels are actually friction-fit snap-on ones (rather unusual for a railroad watch, I thought?)....
I wish I could, but the bezels are well and truly stuck on. Going to take it to my watchmaker next week to see what he can do with it.
That's how they would've been made, in-factory.
Here's somethin' really special! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This is a 1927 Hamilton 992 railroad chronometer, one of the most famous railroad...
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