LOL!
Mine went to Michigan with the same thought. I suspect conditions and pay were better.
$200 for something with a $2000 estimate that it blew past? Sounds like a good deal to me!
And my ancestors - some were tin miners!
I'd say it was used in a pub. Hard-boiled eggs were a common lunch item in the latter, and sometimes pub and "grub" were a package deal, so it...
Those are pretty! They only show up here in the USA if someone brought them from home and they got out of the family somehow.
There are definitely buyers for Israeli stuff.
That's why the Romans wanted Palestine and Britain. Cornwall had/has tin mines, and you need tin to make bronze.
Nowadays you almost have to pay people to take Victorian furniture away. That may be changing, especially with something like that. It lets its...
Thanks. The bottoms have age on them, but I have no idea who made them. My hunch is the crytal is Irish.
Silver jewelry, brass bits, and originally copper. Solomon had a copper mine so it's associated with the area.
Chinese cut paper. This one is signed so it may be the real deal. Others are mass-produced.
Olive wood without a doubt. Carved for the tourist trade, but better than a lot of them. Jesus doesn't look like that 17th century northern...
Went to the ReStore and they must have been putting things out for St Patrick's. I doubt these are Cork glass, but some might be old Waterford....
The metal looksl like mostly brass. The stone could be turquoise in a "resin" setting. These used to come out of India, Nepal or thereabouts....
Don't I wish! I do have friends who've been or who were born there, and I've picked up some information.
I bought it because... kitty! Must rescue kitty. I know; it's signed and I have to others somewhere. That's why I bagged it. (Waterford for a...
That leaf you thought was D&E sure looks like D&E to me! The one in the lower left is Austrian. 5 is by a jobber who did work for Weiss, but...
Argentina and Chile both had/have artisans who made souvenir jewelry. Easy to transport and easy to sell to the tourists. I'd be that's what it is.
Retailers can be a bugger to research, but ice box trade card? Even I can smell the scent of $$. :p Or maybe that's dinner.... :rolleyes:
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