I've got more waistcoats than I could wear!! :D
2.5 feet sounds quite high, but remember that the fire itself was likely raised off the ground on a grate (to give air-flow, etc), so once you'd...
They look like a pair of old-fashioned spit-jacks. Fireplace tools hang from the 'claws', and a rod or bar went through the two rings at the top,...
Pulled a silver watch chain out of my jewelry box to go along with the watch... [ATTACH]
I assume it's either solid gold, or a gold wash/plating process. Brass would've shown signs of tarnish.
Switching to manual is very easy. You simply rip out the electrics, replace the balance wheel, and bolt a crank on the side. Most people do it...
I never said it was a Parker. I said it's COPYING a Parker. A BAD copy, too.
It's a copy of a Parker 61, likely made in the 60s or 70s. Copies of Parker 51s and 61s, 45s and other models were REALLY common during this time...
You guys would have to tag me in a thread like this, wouldn't you? Regarding missing power cords, your best bet is to hunt one down on the...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL ABOARD!! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] AAAAAAAAAALL ABOOOOAAAARD!! The watch on the left is my latest acquisition - a 1925 Hamilton...
Chilean huh?? That's a long way from home!! Thanks :)
Well somewhere where Spanish is a language, because the other 'mark' is in Spanish. If not Spain, I assumed Mexico or south America.
Picked this up at the flea-market today from a chap I know who was selling off cheap silverware. It's marked "Hecho a Mano" on the base...
I agree. German silver. Crescent & Crown. They're upside-down to each other.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] An impulse-buy at the flea-market. Early 20th century half-sized lockstitch sewing machine operating using...
I've seen miniature opera glasses like these being called children's or women's opera glasses. The glasses aimed at men tended to be MUCH larger.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Aren't these the cutest thing ever!? Solid brass and leather construction. They're about 3.5 inches long, maybe...
A yolk is the inside of an egg. A pole to carry buckets is a YOKE. But yeah the point of yokes was to stop the buckets swinging in your arms and...
Yes I hear that's a very common thing these days, to use old folding fruit-knives as paper-knives/letter-openers. I think that's what most people...
Every menorah I've seen has had 9 lights. I've never heard, or seen, a seven one before...
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