It's been a dream of mine to own a pair of ivory chopsticks for about 10 years. I never thought I'd ever get a pair! :o
[ATTACH] My two pairs of chopsticks! Top: Ivory. 10.5in. long. Bottom: Sterling Silver. 8in. long.
An early birthday present :P [ATTACH] [ATTACH] They are exactly 10.5 inches long, and solid ivory. :)
Electro-plated nickel-silver. Nickel-silver is a cheap alloy made from nickel, copper and...something else...Zinc, I believe. No actual silver to...
We have prints of them and we have digital copies. Gotta get around to framing them all and hanging them up and stuff. I've only done a few so far.
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AJ you flatter me! I knew NOTHING about this until maybe 5 years ago? When my grandmother died, my dad got all nostalgic and started talking...
Hey Raver. Yeah they can be tricky to find. This is the nicest one of this style that I've seen in recent years. The first one I purchased walked...
Yep, quite correct. Peranakan slippers are very difficult to bead, though. You're sewing together hundreds, thousands of tiny, tiny, TINY glass...
If it looks like a spork, and sounds like a spork...
Round, glass-topped keys were used on typewriters from the 1800s up to around WWII. After the 1940s they basically vanished from the world. That...
Someone might still want them. You never know. But I don't see any serious money here.
GOOD GOD ABOVE :o Yeeesh! I don't think these are salvagable on any level. Those old-timey circular, glass-capped keys are highly...
We were visiting my uncle's house in Malaysia and the original of that photograph was hanging on the wall. And my dad almost ripped it off and he...
Oh thank you!! I do mean to make more videos, but I haven't had the time recently... If you want to talk about lineage, here's more... [IMG]...
Haha!! The relatives in the background are my great-grandmother, my grandmother, my great-aunts and great-uncle. Here's the full picture: [IMG]...
Haha!! You flatter me, Aquitane. I didn't expect this much interest or praise over a bell!! But yes, I do think that it is very nice. It will now...
Counter bell, desk-bell, service-bell, call-bell. Bells like this were common in places like shops, hotels, front desks of public buildings like...
[ATTACH] My latest purchase. Dunno how old it is exactly, but I reckon Victorian. It's certainly of a similar style to other bells from the...
My posts were about sterling silver. Not about any other grade or purity.
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