I hope it's rust! I'd like to think they cleaned this thing at least once during its lifetime!!
I'd say second quarter of the 1800s. Possibly third. By the second half of the Victorian era, bloodletting (which is what this is for) was...
I've never been to an auction before, and over the past few weeks, I've been visiting my local auction-house and attending auctions. Today was the...
If those things swivel back and forth, I'm almost certain that this is a piano sconce - originally, they were screwed onto the front panels of...
I LOVE polishing brass!! I do it all the time.
AF is right. Bezique scorer. Bezique is/was a card-game that was very popular in the Victorian era. I have seen these made of ivory. Winston...
I love polishing silver. I love polishing brass, too. Once polished, I've never had silver tarnish. But then most of my silver is antique....
Where possible, I pressed the dents out, simply by pressing the silver onto the object and forcing them out, but one of the dents was quite sharp....
My toolbox is filled with all kinds of things! Old chopsticks, a cheap ballpeen hammer, a brass jeweler's anvil, dental picks...the list goes on...
Thanks! :) It's a lot prettier, now that I was able to remove the dents!! They were right in the corners, which made them particularly tricky to...
Picked this up today: [IMG] Great for puttin' your peppermints in: [IMG] When I bought this, it came with a couple of nasty dings in it - one...
I've been into antiques since I was 5 or 6. Used to visit all the antiques shops in my area and go to the local flea-market every Sunday (still...
It's an interesting piece, but I don't see it as an actual MAP, just a wall-hanging. If someone wants to pay $1,200 for it, I say take the money...
That's the kind which my grandmother used for decades. I still have them in my room. Made in the USA, to boot! (In NJ, in case anybody's...
My grandmother was a professional dressmaker for 40 years. They don't look like no clothing shears I've ever seen! And she had them made by one of...
In Australia, Europe and Britain, selling antique ivory is perfectly legal. I know people who do it all the time. I know America is notoriously...
I wouldn't say that ivory is WORTHLESS. It's just that there's so many damn goody-two-shoes moralisers out there these days that it's bloody hard...
What exactly IS spelter? Can someone explain this to me?
I have collected, bought and sold ivory for a while now. It doesn't bother me. So long as it's antique I don't care.
If you're buying Montblancs online, one easy way to tell if the guy behind the other screen is a ripoff artist or not, is to ask if you can buy...
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