Pockets of the day, mansplaining alert, were detachable. They were handbags before handbags were handbags. It's why we still call them pocketbooks.
My answer to such a survey? Anything but Top 40 and pop country. Literally anything.
Holland Mold - they made pieces for hobbyists to decorate.
Brown wood and brown upholstery is a tough sale here. In the old days, people setting up a new house or apartment bought what they could find...
The highest end of Noritake is pretty sweet, if you like that sort of thing. No matter how good it is though, it doesn't have the Worcester name...
Definitely shell and definitely old. How old and from where? No idea.
Hand-painted Royal Worcester on the other hand...whee, but Noritake just doesn't get much respect.
It would have to be rewired, which might actually devalue it. The original cord was probably cloth-wrapped with rubber, and couldn't be sold with...
Black Hawiian coral does turn up, but I don't think it's harvested any more.
Advertising for the firm: Buzz, for when the going gets hairy. He's always hairy.
Where I am, you're lucky to sell them at any price. A local dealer who buys from me won't even look at the ones from Japan. They don't sell here.
And now we have even more coral to look for.
Ammonite/ammolite: Fossilized shell if memory serves.
Non-magnetic doesn't mean it's silver; it just means it's made of non-magnetic metal. It doesn't look like silver to me.
It's agreed; Luna is a cat with very good taste.
It's probably like an essential oil burner.
In the old days, I shipped direct everywhere the USPS let me. Now i"m not so sure I'd do it. (or that I'd have to worry about it much; shipping...
The leaves still looked wrong.
Bleeding heart? The leaves and flower shape are wrong. I had to look up the Latin name.
Probably a good idea. I used to sell on eBay and now rarely even look there for anything. The shipping makes buying there uneconomical.
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