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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: That poor blade! I wouldn't treat a steak knife like that! I hope it goes into the hands of someone who knows how to...
Singles and pairs. Large sets are a problem. I've seen that too, here. Full dining room suites and large tables are bait for the FREE pile at...
Not up to modern codes, but as long as you don't get them wet or feed them after Midnight you're probably good.
I'd love to know the story on these.
It's begging for a cleaning.
Bet it would still work fine if you could find the fuses. Not up to modern safety standards, but that old school tech was close to kill-proof....
Knife switches? I think not! The inspector would have a cow. Something to do with commercial electric lighting. Street lights maybe. Furthest...
WAAAAH! That's worse than pitctures of jewelry "art" made of perfectly good vintage jewelry, or what was perfectly good before someone trashed...
Silesia is/was the part of Poland swiped by Prussia, or most of it, in the 1790s.
Wheee. I'd have bagged the Napoleon III chair too, and you couldn't buy the upholstery fabric these days on those flame birch chairs for what the...
This is a passion project no matter what. If I had $2500 to spare laying around, I might well have gone for it, bearing in mind that you'll...
Seconded. The lady, and it was almost always a lady, had talent and did a nice job. The blanks for china painting usually were white porcelain...
You can see it up close, so would know better.
The couple in the second postcard look like some sort of "Artists", of the sort who want to be known for their Art and never break into the big...
Five six seven, open up the pearly gates! Hope he's singing with the choir now. RIP
The center bit likely is, under the enamel. It could be silver, but the Italian pieces I've found that are similar are enamel on copper.
I love those little enameled copper pieces.
Nice! The firm started not too far from me.
A sapphire that big and that color, if natural, would be in a high-karat or platinum setting and cost a bomb. With lab-created sapphire, all bets...
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