Classic Toi et Moi , i.e. two stone, setting. The silver metal around the stones is there to make them seem larger. Old engagement ring?...
I do keep Bon Ami in the house; it's a powder cleanser that's been around for over a century with (as far as I know) no changes to the formula....
Can't say I've ever polished glass.
Wright's silver polish.
Looks it, but who knows.
I'd go with the same toothbrush and ye old pink paste instead.
I honestly have no idea. I'd say 70s/80s if they were made at the same time as the clasp. There isn't much wear, but if these were on raffia in a...
One good story. I went to an estate sale this summer or last summer. Family cleaning out. The first time: no jewelry in this sale. I bought...
My sister looked at a vase I found. Doesn't look all that pretty but my response? "that's a car." Things do turn up in random household...
That would definitely make a room. It would require 3 meter or higher ceilings, preferably higher, but definitely a talking point.
You only wish it had become a Scooby Snack.
Welcome fellow joolie! I was on the old eBay boards too - got off when the whackadoodles took over the asylum and pink slaps flew like skirling...
I would have said 30s too - first-generation Victorian Revival. Fifties stuff wasn't made as well. Buy for resale here and you'd be guarenteed to...
For me, the cleaning I don't want to do is all fiddly sterling bits.
Unless of course it's to one of us!
There are some here I won't touch. One starts their sales at 7AM. Anyone who can see straight at that hour isn't for me. Also - all of the ones...
Throw it in a basket!
I'd be thinking a lady circa 1900 bought a blank urn and decorated it herself.
The wheels are so a maid could move the chair around to clean under it. The upholstery looks later. Circa 1900-ish parlor chair?
The tray Brad saw is straight out of the 30s/40s. They were craft kit items. If it's intact throw it in the mall for a fair price and most...
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