I found something that deserves a photo today - a sterling and Italian glass rosary, in a box with a hallmarked silver plaque on top that's...
I call weighted sterling "silver tinfoil"; it's a very thin layer of silver over a chalk or similar weight and a steel armature. I'd feel lucky...
I got mine for free at a yard sale. It's handheld but not a flashlight type, but for that price who argues!
I have two or three quilt pieces that I'll never finish. Actually more than that, but the other three are for materials or weight reasons. Two...
THat low? OUCH. My grandmother was a maid in New York starting around 1911. She went to school through the 8th grade, because where she grew...
The blue mark had me thinking it said Nestea - aka Nestle. Nope. However, to get the brown muck out, denture tablets would be the first thing to...
None or not enough. She could have dictated it to a housekeeper or similar; senior servants had to be somewhat literate.
Greetings!
I'd bet that the servant didn't have the best education, because she might well have stopped school at 6th - 8th grade and gone to work.
Doubtful, but there's no harm in finding out.
It's solid oak, just don't ask me the age or where it came from.
There are two auction houses here with long histories. Neither is taking normal household goods any more; they don't make enough on them.
It's too bad that furniture is such a good deal , but so hard to shift.
I was out tag-saling yesterday and spent a grand total of $5.50 plus about the same on gasoline. Nobody was out, but only one sale attracted any...
So..killer provenance in addition to everything else.
I found a Kintsugi-ed bowl a while ago, and gave it to a friend who's had open-heart surgery etc. I figured she IS a Kintsugi piece herself, and...
I've seen that exact rose before. It's cast something, and the texture on the front tells me it's glass. The setting is costume, so it's not...
They're definitely Chinese dyed freshwater pearls. She'll like them.
The seller is going to have some FUN watching those go. I've watched here for a Georgian wineglass of any sort to turn up at a reasonable price....
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