Prepare yourself for a lot of reading. I know enough to (maybe) recognize it, but that's all.
Same here. If it were really ugly I'd remove the varnish, but it's just the edges. I'd try just the paste wax first if worse came to worst.
It's old for sure, and I agree that the spoon end is a good repair to a family treasure. It looks like a beaver tail. Mammoth wouldn't surprise...
That belongs either in a medical office, get your mammograms y'all, or a mancave. I can see that on @komokwa 's wall now, wife permitting! It's...
Maybe the same workshop. A serious expert might know for certain, but we don't have one of those.
Larger than I thought. It needs a nice dresser to sit on.
Hard to turn down items in perfect condition that are right in your wheelhouse.
..if not by much. Not any more. Some old growth trees do turn up in odd spots.
Very Chinese-looking butterfly, made for the Chinese market in China. It's not horribly old, but beyond that you need a pottery/porcelain "guy"....
Whoa! Somebody was asleep at the switch, and it wasn't Shangas! I'm developing a "contact high" for Peranakan pieces and would have snagged it...
Made to look hand-made possibly? It does look like a soap holder, for when soap bars were often oval. That said, I'd be thinking hairpins.
She saw the tax bill and the light bill. Can't blame her.
He was just going to pitch them anyway, if he was melting the earrings.
The bird looks like an owl. Beyond that, dunno .
For me it's mostly gold-plated silver if anything. Some Black Hills tri-color pieces are gold, but these days that's often plated silver too if...
Operative word being "were". They are now lunch money?
I was going to say the necklace looked Japanese or Korean, depending on age. The plastics, tag language, and clasp looked Korean, but the spotted...
That's...odd, but if they were strung in the USA who knows. The Czechs as far as I know didn't use real or faux pearls much, and the Japanese...
Satin glass with the stripe in the center. I've never seen that toggle clasp either and have no idea where it came from. It looks like something...
My first instinct is Japanese glass. Maybe Czech. The stringing is older but I can't see the clasp for beans. It may be meaningless if they've...
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