Saves them work and makes life easier for pickers. Win/win!
Better you than me!
I"m chronologically 58, neurologically about 80, and mentally sometimes about 12. :p:p:p
Another possible - magic lantern slides? It seems too small, but ..?
Seconded. Glass in the first, and agate in the second. I'd put some money on fluorite for the green a purple set, unless it's a stone/glass mix....
Dust busted and wood properly oiled? Nice!
No idea, except that it doesn't read as Chinese.
Seconded. Those are 1990s or later beads from the shape, so it's not an old Thing.
Nope. With bakelite the pong is distinctive.
Seconded. The P barely fits; the factory would have done a better job.
Not bakelite. Bakelite will turn the swab yellow-brown or brown, and if you do it next to your nose it ill stink to high heaven. I just bought...
If it's the Ill-willed place I think it was, it's a bleeding miracle they didn't smash it or chip it. That wasn't a buy, it was a rescue.
They look like amber-wannabe.
I know a guy named Henry Guttman. I cannot honestly see him painting anything except a wall back when he was younger. :D
Welcome.
Somebody blew it but good. Somebody who is not named Brad.
It looks like the sort of thing my grandparents bought in 1946. For seven bucks though, why not? You couldn't buy the hardware for that now.
It probably went for less than it should have, unless three Indians and a Brit went at it.
Beads bagged. :p:p Proper ones are hand-written by a Scribe. The problem these days: find a Scribe.
Probably both. I'd know "ooh that's good" if I saw it, but not how good. Most of what we get came in through Pier One Imports or similar - mass...
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