Nice score! They sold it to you for scrap, or under scrap. Yike.
If that's real silver...whooee. It not it's still a nice find. It's an elegant tray.
The earrings are nice, but I love the lobster!
They don't like Google, and now don't like direct links. ((eyeroll)) Figures. No wonder people are complaining that nothing is selling.
Snipe fasteners on the back. I'd guess the brasses are original. At $1400 it was begging to be bought; in the 80s it would have gone for 5x that...
Where's Bear when we need her? My first thought was Neiger too, but we don't get enough of it here for me to be 100% sure. I'd run a blacklight...
I don't think they want people coming in from outside. The board is there but the link barfed.
I think it was probably factory art, and in-painted by someone new at the factory.
My first guess would be brass, they usually were, but copper is possible too.
It looks like the black outlines were done first, and whoever painted it in had colors that were too opaque for the job, and they didn't shade it....
Rub good with your thumb first. If your thumb turns black, your odds just went up. Be sure to do it before washing hands, no after. Skin oils...
:D:D:D:D I'm signed up to either be a medical cadaver or a corpse for the Body Farm - my old university has a Forensics major and they can always...
Definitely a goose. And...recycled silverware?
French. Silverplate marks. Someone who actually knows the marks will be along sooner or later.
I know she's OK, but don't know if she'll be back either. Haven't asked.
We buried my dad's ashes in a black plastic box. He wasn't there and would have thrown a fit at spending $$$ on a fancy urn . (Depression kid -...
I'd say vase of flowers. As for the mold - saturate a paper towl with vinegar and wipe at it first that way. Then replace the cardboard.
It has a bunch of Chinese motifs on it - peaches, fish etc, but those were also used elsewhere. Someone who can at least identify the marks on...
Me three.
Or a church, if there were two of them.
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