You know how when you have something so clear in your head you forget to say it. Glad it gave you the tip off & you refined the idea. :)
Think though, since it would swing between light & dark, not play light side to side, that you are correct & it is a signal rather than illumination.
Excellent! INH does it again. :)
Remember, date of patent is not necessarily date of manufacture.
What I think I see makes little phonetic sense & no sense at all to Google: Lovetriant?
Think it functions like an inkwell if you're using a dip pen. It wants to be squat & heavy so you have no chance of knocking it over & little of...
Know this has already been taken up, but, rereading, a memory came back of a couple of friends who needed to take a part off a drill. It was on...
Is the neck threaded for a screw cap? Looks like an ink bottle rather than an inkwell.
See in my reply I neglected to convey the whole over-the-shoulder suggestion, which was that it is an oscillating light for a train. So we're on...
If I can't have my cameo, a large padparadscha sapphire would be nice.
I have seen it many times on brooches using an artificial cameo as a way of hiding the back without having plain, flat metal. Makes it look classier.
How big? What parts move & how do they move? Have had a suggestion over my shoulder that it is a gas-fed lamp that swings back & forth. Right...
It's quite small, silver, from a French jeweller. Christening gift, something that way. Not that it couldn't be used for an invalid, just think...
Unless it is Aladdin's lamp, think you are right about infant/invalid feeder. Maybe there was also a food pusher, if this was given as a baby gift?
I think it is as it was meant to be, or close to. I don't see any strong evidence for anything broken off. Certainly nothing that impairs...
These rhinestone encircled pieces have been turning up big time of late, many from China.
http://ianewatts.org/blog/2011/02/12/u-s-army-transportation-corps-water-division-ships-officer-2/
I'd be inclined to call it a chalice.
Not Mississippi River pearl?
Are the stones that deep cerise in person? Love the color.
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