They look like cigarette snuffers to me - what size is the center hole? ~Cheryl
My Sir Percival Peach, who was one of the best cats ever (though one of his nicknames was 'S*** for Brains'), was also a sock thief who talked as...
A. Cesa & C. of Alessandria, the second mark is their trademark - your piece would date 1944-68:...
Please understand that I'm not wanting to be negative regarding your lovely new boy - he is a stunner, and will no doubt be wonderful addition to...
A lemon fork would be small, a lettuce fork much larger with a long handle - no size is given, but it looks to me more like a place fork, maybe...
Red cedar boxes like the OP's are usually from the 1920s-'50s, as the ads posted indicate, and they were also sometimes used for cigars, but more...
London import marks from 1928 - shown as unidentified importer on this site: https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/London-AD-AJ.html#AJ...
This Chinese piece at the British Museum is clearly quite different, but does have four feet, as well as being slightly lobed:...
Quick search finds a few references to W.E. Rogers of Philadelphia stretchers on paintings of the period: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
When Mom bought hers like this one years ago, along with some other gargoyles (it was a short-lived interest, but gave us a new gift option for...
Very common American item, most originally had candy, but they were used for other items, as well as sold both empty and filled as souvenirs....
Would be Stewart Dawson & Co., they produced/retailed both silver and silverplate - without a mark indicating it's silver, should be silverplate....
Zagayevsky (the '3' is a Cyrillic 'Z') was the assayer for Riga, Latvia, which was part of the Russian Empire, and is where the piece would have...
Oops - just noticed Bulldogs posted a listing showing the full set. ~Cheryl
It's a nested set of ashtrays (there should be one more piece) - more common than not for ashtrays/ash receivers of the period to be without...
.813 fineness, Helsinki, 1966, can't quite make out the maker's mark... https://www.925-1000.com/Ffinland_Date_Code.html ~Cheryl
https://www.etsy.com/listing/612165813/vintage-mens-black-onyx-diamond-c?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_a-...
Looks to me like a black onyx from a man's signet ring with the gold initial removed... ~Cheryl
I was once given a mini Zen garden with a very similar base......
No liquor on US ships since 1914, other than for 'medicinal purposes', or for 'beer days' (not that it couldn't be found onboard as contraband)......
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