Not all tiny spoons are for salt. Could be mustard or honey too, but it looks cute either way.
I was chatting with one of the stallholders I'm friendly with, and he literally came up and offered it to me. First he tried to sell it to the...
[ATTACH] Bought this from a French guy at the flea market this morning... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That's quite a bowl! But yes as Bronwen says - 'STERLING' is actually a fineness level - it means 925 or higher. Yours is 800 - which most...
Sold it! Made a nice, fat profit off of it, too... :)
I honestly don't know. It may be. It looks like it.
I'll let the photos speak for themselves. Price paid: $25.00 Not a damn thing wrong with it. No rips, tears, dents, scratches...some minor...
Yeah I struggle finding knives I like. They're either too big, or too small, or they look incredibly UGLY. I bought this one because it was a...
Just to give you an idea of how much effort went into cleaning this knife - here's a photograph of one of the paper towels I used to clean it...
I wandered into a local antiques shop yesterday and bought this from a selection of maybe five or six knives on sale in a cabinet... [ATTACH]...
I use sewing machine oil for almost everything. Locks, sewing machines, typewriters, pocketknives, polishing, cleaning, flushing out gunk...It's...
If the smell of WD-40 is especially off-putting, you could try sewing-machine oil. That is also very runny, but has no odour.
I'm pretty good with writing boxes. But never tried a sewing box. I should try and pick one up somewhere in not-too-bad condition and see if I can...
I gotta learn how to do this stuff... :o Writing boxes, yes. Sewing boxes? I've never tried...
Those goblets are GORGEOUS!! :o
I seriously doubt 1920. By then these things would've been VERY outdated. Edwardian period would be their last gasp.
Mermaid is almost certainly some type of plastic. Probably celluloid or something similar. The other piece looks like ivory. I don't see any of...
Tol'ja so :P 1910 at the latest.
My fingers are killing me, but after a whole day of filing, I have finally cut a replacement key for the lock. Works perfectly! :)
You couldn't have an open pounce pot on a travelling case like this. One jolt would send the pounce all over the place. Besides, this thing...
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