It could be for a sugar-bowl or something. I dunno...
Now all I have to do is find a 114-year-old sterling silver gravy-boat of the same style...
I hate asparagus, even if it is served with hollandaise! Hollandaise is for Eggs Benedict and nothing else!! NOTHING I TELLS YAH!! Would it...
You heard the title. Now what is it?? [IMG] It's 6in across, 4.75in wide. [IMG] It's sterling silver for Sheffield, 1903... [IMG] What...
I think this is a homemade affair. I'd say it was the handle from an old rocker-blotter that was glued onto a piece of glass that was cut...
100% an inkwell, but as the others have said, the insert is missing. This would've been made of either clear glass, porcelain or milk glass. The...
Thanks Acquitane! Glad you enjoyed reading them as much as I did writing them!!
Never mind...
I'd rather not know!
Here's my article on the Peranakan/Straits Chinese, in case you're wondering what they are. My grandmother's family was Peranakan going back at...
I do have another Peranakan belt which IS solid silver, but it's of an entirely different style.
This is probably the first, last and only time I would ever buy silver-plate, but here's something you certainly don't see every day... [IMG]...
The little knob-handle mortars like mine with the double-head pestles are called apothecary mortars, because they were usually used by old-time...
My antique mortars and pestles say 'hello' :) [IMG]
TOBIAS.
I rest my case.
Silver, bronze, brass, whatever it is - I polish it. Polishing brass and silver was a VERY common preoccupation during the Victorian era - They...
I hate asparagus. I shall use them to eat fish-fingers!
Hi Susan, That was extremely informative! Thank you. So is this Italian silver, then? Or what? Frankly I'm amazed the 925-purity mark was so...
I know! That's what she said as well, but to me, it's just a higgle-de-piggledy mess of...wiggles... I don't understand how anybody sees numbers...
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