Hanau marks? She looks like Maria Theresa of Austria kinda- sorta. (poor thing)
Vintage tins, a sterling frame and other goodies for Zero? DINGDINGDING.
The flat-topped ones are easier to move in more ways than one. People use them for tables etc. Add a glass top and off they go.
I guess a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do. But why do you gotta do that to yourself?
I wouldn't mess with it either. The painting isn't crazy-valuable, 19th century "genre" pictures of old guys just aren't, but if it's a family...
Heyyya .... Blackeyed Peas ring maybe?
...or not; it could also be an initial letter. I have one that looks pretty much like a lowercase p that's actually q-sound in Hebrew.
All I know is I wouldn't have wanted to carve that. Whee!
Many here are or were eBay sellers.
The ring on the far left side of picture 4 is upside-down. It's a Hebrew language C'hai for sure.
Or just liked red glass. Red and cobalt both have addicts.
Not horribly old, but beyond that..nope. The chain looks 1960s/70s if that's any help.
1. Welcome to Antiquers! 2. Items made in the 1980s aren't our best area. Too new. Someone who knows may be along later. Since many don't click...
Smaller college apartments? Or college kid bedrooms. I would make sense to use a small desk.
Yup. I use a souvenir ash tray for cufflinks and a few jewelry bits. Bought it in high school, but never used it for tobacco since I don't...
About six years from now, the keys will appear in a box where they have no business being. That's how it works.
Those look like silver marks, so awfully fancy tassel bits, if so. Bits from a candlarbra maybe?
The red glass turns up here in the USA too, but doesn't ring any bells for me.
Any neck beards? :p:p:p I think they were in for about five minutes once, other than now for a few hipsters...who aren't all that hip.
Now you know why I have a piece of measuring tape literally glued to the front edge of my desk! :p:p:p
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