If it stays out of the landfill, rock on. That furniture was sturdy if heavy, and with a little politeness will remain usable for a good century...
It's what keeps us going in for more. The one that made me want to tear my hair was a "we buy gold" guy. He bought entire jewelry boxes and...
SCORE! All I ever see here are those inscribed 80s and later souvenir pieces.
Mine is a lump of maple. That one is not maple, is all I'm sure of.
Found the first tag sale in this area for this year. It was a serial tagsale house so I almost skipped it. Didn't buy much, but did beat Bear or...
The only way I know William IV from Georgian is his silver's reign mark. Maybe.
Seconded. A local jewelry "expert" sells Meh sterling earrings at $15/pair, but sold me a Schreiner necklace for $30. Sold it on eBay while the...
Chunks of potch opal can make awesome jewelry.
Not that I can see.
Looks like the chain has a fob and a watch key on it. I think it's more Victorian than Georgian, but ... what's inside the watch? Any writing on...
Me too. I like that.
If this is a commercially made piece, and it has a copyright symbol so that's almost a lock, it almost has to be synthetic opal. There's no way...
It could be tough to sell here now - anything ivory gives auction houses hives, even if you can prove it's OK to sell.
I found a kimomo framed that way at an estate sale once. The framing cost more than the textile was probably worth, but hey.
And lab opal without question. When you see a Southwestern US design item with opal inlay, they're 99.99% chance of lab opal. Real ones are...
I was thinking about the same thing. I honestly don't think those are the original wires on the earrings, making life difficult.
^5 on the Chinese export silver. It's getting harder and harder to find, and priced up when you do.
Nice!
The style looks late 1890s to me, but it has Czecho-slovakia on the bottom. That's a post=WWI mark for certain, because the country didn't exist...
Ye old Elmer's wood glue? I might pull out my E6000 jewelry glue, but i'm an old joolie. It dries clear.
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