That is a gorgeous bowl! I say polish it, and love it!
If you leave silver to tarnish, it can damage the metal. And the harder it is to clean, the more likely it is that you'll damage it when you DO...
And here I was expecting a tiny carriage inside it, with wheels that spin and doors and open and shut. And it'd be made of 18kt gold with sapphire...
That is GORGEOUS!!! :o
You're welcome. A typical mahjong set has 144 tiles. Plus two dice, to indicate which player out of two, or four, goes first. So like, player...
I like restoring items. But you do have to be VERY careful with this stuff. Some items are just NOT possible to restore. And if you screw it up...
A few things to know: 1. Mahjong (and a lot of other Chinese things) were A GIGANTIC FAD in the early 20th century. From the 1900s to the 1930s,...
Oh yeah! You do sometimes get fantastically lucky. I bought a little, Georgian-silver Vinaigrette for about 1/4 the going-rate, because the guy...
And a second-cousin named 'Fully Restored'.
I've heard SO MANY of these things, I could fill a book... 1). If it's old, it's valuable! Who the hell told you that? I could show you LOADS of...
I remember reading a blog of an antiques collector once (this is some years ago), and he described brass as 'everyday, everyman's gold'.
It may be possible that the glass doesn't go with it? And that it was just wedged in there because it looked 'cute'? I've seen a number of Jewish...
Probably, but I don't know enough to be certain of anything.
I tell time with my antique pocketwatches. I have an Edwardian carriage-clock ticking on my desk. I shave with my Victorian straight-razors. I...
They look cute, but they don't look that old. I've seen a LOT of antique candlesticks and the patina/shading/tarnishing (whatever!) on the brass...
Since it's a hanging bell, might whatever it was hanging from, have broken off, resulting in a fall which might explain some of the damage on the rim?
What you have are a pair of binoculars made by LeMaire of Paris. I don't see any such markings on the OP's one. I don't think we'll ever know.
Fake Chinese antiques are absolutely everywhere, to the extent that you can't trust what it says on the label anymore, as it were. To be...
I agree with the general consensus. it's for cookies or candy.
Goal 1: Sell stuff. Goal 2: Buy stuff with profits. Goal 3: Sell more of that stuff. Goal 4: Buy more stuff and perhaps a few trinkets....
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