According to the research I've done, and the experts I've spoken to, it's not a rare-rare machine, but it is certainly rather notorious!
Now this is something totally weird. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Manufactured from 1886-1888, the Moldacot Patent...
Hahahaha!! The ones I have are all Victorian. By the end of the 1800s, the pedestal-type bell was considered old-fashioned. I don't think I've...
WHY YOUSE ALL PICKIN' ON ME FER!? [ATTACH] ...Oh, right... Hey Linda. Your bell looks early 20th century. Probably Edwardian era...
Ebonite browning is extremely common. Find any piece of antique ebonite-ANYTHING, and it will almost certainly have at least some of it. I collect...
Sampson Mordan & Co. was a manufacturer of pencils and other similar desktoppy items, usually in sterling silver, that was in business from the...
The mark is upside-down.
Not sure. They were common by the 1920s though. Given the general styling and appearance, I'd say 1920s-1930s. So 80, 90 years old.
A 'permanent match'. Basically it has a wick, and a flint, and inside the container is a whole heap of cotton wool soaked in fuel (lighter fluid...
It might be aluminium. Or possibly nickel-plated brass (that was a very common thing in the old days). Stainless steel is a relatively recent...
Not that this adds much or anything, but the 'loop' that goes through the hole in the shaft and around the user's wrist is called a lanyard.
Wish I could find stuff like that down here in Australia. Not a bloody chance. Charity shops price their stuff up to the hilt around here.
*hysterical laughter* That is EXACTLY what I thought!!! :D
Only underage in the sense that I'm below the average age of most antiques dealers and collectors.
Sorry for hijacking the thread with pointless knowledge, I guess.
For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, German silver (and Austrian silver, and a few other countries in that region) all used a LOTH system for...
I thought Asia used a higher standard? Like, I think Japan uses 950 or something.
800-range = Continental. 925 = Sterling. "Coin silver", as far as I've always understood it, was 90%.
...who juices single grapes...?
We're having our house renovated. We had to remove all the furniture and 2/3 of it in storage. When we had to move our piano (a grand) the lady at...
Separate names with a comma.
