Yes, another one. And no, AF, before you ask - there's no maker's mark. [IMG] It took me two days of extensive cleaning to get this thing...
I've been to two or three Peranakan museums in my time (there aren't that many, that's how rare this stuff is), and none of them had keyholders...
I just love them because of how different they were. How interesting and unique. How their lives were so different from everyone else's in the...
I'm thinking Bugs Bunny finally got pissed off with Elmer Fudd here... :P
I'm a bit more Peranakan than you are!! :P My paternal grandmother was from an ENTIRELY Peranakan family. They lived in Muar, in Malaya,...
Hi AJ. Yes, silver chainmail purses were popular with the nyonya during the early 1900s. I have seen numerous examples in antiques shops, in...
Here's a photograph of the keyholders together with my grandmother's nyonya belt, to give an idea of how these things were worn... [IMG] From...
There probably is! But I have no idea where that might be. Like I said - styles were copied and reproduced for decades - centuries! A knob-handled...
Not that I'm aware of. The information is usually gathered from auction-sites and antiques seller websites and stuff like that. It's not 100%...
[IMG] Here is something you definitely do not see every day. What we have here is a pair of Straits Chinese or Peranakan copper keyholders, from...
I'll try, but I don't promise anything!! It's a mortar and pestle, obviously. Looks to be...bronze...rather than brass, judging by the colour of...
I hate those Russian dolls. They're so full of themselves...
I trim it from time to time, and perhaps use a razor if it's really irritating me, usually in hot weather. But other than that... ...wait. What...
hahahaha Most people will not have heard or seen these things before. A tiffin carrier is for carryin your tiffin. Tiffin is an old English...
Currenty on holiday in Malaysia and Singapore. I picked this up in a flea-market in Kuala Lumpur. It needs a bit of fixing (nothing a bit of...
I highly doubt it's for calling cards. I've seen dozens of card-cases made in silver and ivory and it looks nothing like that. Is it actually...
Smartass! I said THINGS!! Not peoples!!!
It's true. Some things really are trashed and worthless. But most things just need cleaning to get them working again.
In my experience in fixing all kinds of antiques, from fountain pens to sewing machines, cigarette lighters to binoculars, telescopes and bells --...
I try and sell more things than I buy. Ideally - large things.
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