The way I always heard it, and personal experience, is that when color comes off on the q-tip it's something other than bakelite. I've never used...
How did you get a photo of me? I'm the other one! In the Winter I can hide in the typing paper. (photocopier paper for the young'uns)
All I found today was a guy in a bucket truck; my neighbor's tree took a dislike to the power line and dropped a branch on it.
I just saw something fleeingly on line. Could these be Herend? I just saw some painted birds at random that reminded me of these.
I think Bear nailed it. I've seen the constuction before and it's not old. Someone did a nice job making it, whoever they were.
It's too bad my grandfather died in 1973. He was the cook for a machine gun company in the US Army during WWI. If he didn't use one he knew who...
Everyone had a stereo viewer back in the day. It was a good way to keep kids quiet and out of your hair!
Thanks. I was thinking it was sold in Liberty's department store. It's a match for their colors and style of the period.
The Russians borrowed from the French, right up until their Revolution in 1917. I don't think we have any other posters in Estonia, although long...
Sweet chair. THREE BUCKS? Somebody had no clue combined with "nobody wants antiques". Sheesh.
They probably both copied something even older.
The butterflies look like costume from here, but they're pretty. I can see why she bagged them.
Nice! There are still deals to be had if you know more than the other punters.
My haul from last weekend. Such as it is. There were four pieces of Indonesian batik. I'm going to hem the orange and purple pieces and give them...
Provided Komo doesn't lay eyes on it of course.(LOL)
I saw something about it and could only think...HOW?
My first reaction is that it's one of those 1990s Victorian Revival pieces not made to fool anyone. A lot were made in California of brass...
I've seen a pile of silverplate just marked Holland 90 too. (aka plated)
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Whoever Royal Krona are, I like their work.
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