Thankfully not. I'm becoming much more uh...discerning with the ones I buy these days.
HOW MANY? Uh...at least half a dozen. Probably 8 by now? I plan to sell at least two of them at an antiques fair at the end of the year, though.
Isn't something like that called a PAYMASTER'S CHEST? As in, a chest to store the account/pay-books, gold, silver, notes, coins, etc...? Maybe...
Sue me! I bought another one! In my defense, I sold three pieces of silver, and a pocketwatch, to atone for my sin... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
As others have said, they're called hotpots or steamboats (my family, we called them 'steamboats'). In Japan, I think they're called Nabe or...
This is certainly not a writing box. I've seen more than enough of almost every kind of writing and stationery box than you can imagine, to know...
My area of specialisation is antique writing equipment and accessories. I'm not sure what use I'm gonna be here. Brass fittings were actually...
Can we see the entire tray? :)
I was gonna say. I've seen a lot of seals, and I don't see how this is a seal...
Must be a bloody old camera. That thing looks huge!
Save the pictures as JPEGs or something that preserves quality but reduces filesize, and then upload them here as FULL IMAGES (as opposed to...
Need more (larger, and clearer) photos. We can't tell anything from a postage-stamp unfortunately. It looks interesting, whatever it is.
This law is ridiculous. Words will not change anything. You wanna stop ivory poaching? Then keep spraying their tusks bubblegum pink or whatever...
Banning pre-47 ivory is gonna make a LOT of people extremely unhappy. I wonder how many world-renowned museums would willingly smash up their...
Yeah, definitely bone. You can see all the pitting and lines where flesh and muscle used to connect to it. Marrow-flecks and all that stuff....
It's interesting, but I'm not sure it's ivory. I'm seeing dark flecks that would indicate bone.
Looked up the Maker's Mark: Thomas Hughes Headland (THH). Active from the 1830s, it seems. The mark I have was registered in 1853.
Well to remove (or at least reduce) the dents on this cup, all I used was a $10 wooden-shafted, steel-head ballpeen hammer I bought at a...
Thanks for the comments everybody :) Was glad I could remove most of the dents :)
Hahahaha!! Somehow I'm not entirely sure... :D
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