Cigarette case. Probably brass or something. No clear idea of age, except OLD. You can polish it if you want.
Haha! Fast... Yes, a mezuzah, which holds words of blessing and protection for the house written on a little scroll rolled up and popped inside....
It's cute. And BIG. But that's about it. What did you wanna know about it?
What about a fan or a pair of chopsticks? That ought to be pretty easy.
It would be a shame to scrap those. It's not often you find spectacles made of precious metals.
I'd get those suckers off to a goldsmith and see if he can fix them! :o
Yeah they look early 20th century at the latest. Probably 20s or 30s at the latest. My guess is that they're made of gold-filled brass, which I...
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These would be turn of the century. Late Victorian or Edwardian, possibly up to the 10s/20s. I don't think they'd be any later than that.
Hmm. That depends. How long is it? A pocket telescope (closed length approx 6-8in, open approx 18in) - they go anywhere from $100-$300 depending...
Of course he bloody well got arrested! That's false advertising! ...they're wind-powered, too.
I'll be attending a show of writing equipment at the end of the year. I shall have to sell my writing-slopes as analogue, Victorian-era laptops...
I'd say that telescope was made towards the end of that manufacturer's life, probably 1840s-1868. The pivoting lens-shutter and the slip-on...
That's all well and good, but plunging hot needles into things can damage them. Especially if it's antique plastic. So best to avoid it, just in case.
I can tell that the telescope is damn old (at least 100 years), but nothing else, until it's opened, and there's photos of all sides. The compass...
A telescope like that would be older than 1850. Those sliding lens-shutters had died out by then. They were really common on Georgian telescopes...
I had an old, broken celluloid fountain pen from the 1930s. To find out what all the hype was about celluloid and its legendary flammability, I...
I would be EXTREMELY weary of doing the hot pin test. If it's antique celluloid, you just turned it into a bomb. Old celluloid plastic is...
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I always thought the long S died out in the 1700s. I didn't realise they still used it in Victorian times. The engraving is just so...
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