Variscite for sure. I'm not smelling Navajo here, but somebody made it. It's not a factory piece, more like what our British contingent would...
Findings are often all they miss.
Complain. If I were running the sale I'd put up notices that if you get rude you get nothing. The two ladies would have gotten a flea in their...
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It looks real to me. Fakers wouldn't bother with the thread at the corners of the label.
I don't sweep a table unless I'm buying the lot. Anything else is rude at a church sale. I've been at sales where two people took control of an...
I rather like the name he used, real or not. :p:p:p
If it's in gaps and such, I'd start with a wooden toothpick and just scrape it out. Sometimes solder and such had copper in it. For larger areas,...
Not a clue, but Jerry's Artarama here would have charged $50 for it twenty years ago. Now, made in USA it would be even higher. A Chinese...
Linoleum block?
Not the worst buy ever; the frame alone would cost a mint to buy new. I suspect nice decorator print too.
It says Hand Painted. Not sure whose mark the leaf is.
That's why the lid is on and so it sits. The only mercury I want to mess with is inside of a thermometer.
The rings are tortoiseshell all right. Just don't ask me the age.
I have something similar here - cast iron seal/chop ink container with hard red ink. Mine looks like a basket weave but it's the same idea.
It looks like a WWI poster, professionally framed. Don't ask me if it's original or worth anything.
Seconded. They look like really good chairs, suitable for use. Maple furniture from the era doesn't sell for much, but just try to find a single...
It's not as wet here or as warm, but at least there were no English kings breathing down your neck.
Skullduggery and dirty deeds have always made good press. Lousy if you're the one being written about though.
It looks like she wrote "Best wishes, ze Vamp." ...and I want her pearls and what was probably a killer dress.
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