That's them! I found them in with some New York Central buttons. Knew those in a blind second of course.
I'd have turned around and walked out. I don't play games. Someone tried jacking the price up on me once, by a lot. My response? Loudly "No....
Smart, I'd call it. Recycling of the old school.
It looks American to me, but if it's in the UK it's unlikely to have been exported. Y'all make too much nice furniture of your own to bother with...
They're old is all I'm sure of - uniform buttons made in Waterbury, CT like a lot of others. My late dad had railroad ones but I'm not familiar...
Same here. Cultured Mabe pearls set in silver are dead on for the time period.
Trade bead?
For that price you couldn't miss by much. Stick it in a corner and add peacock feathers and it'll look right at home.
Seconded. Chinese white coral, dyed red to sorta kinda look expensive.
Not much. It was just a decent quality rug when sold, nothing crazy.
It smells like plastic and funny paint, not dinner or a potential threat. He might sit on it and accidentally smash it to death, but that's about...
it would certainly be odd, but not impossible if it's older. The Brits were all over the place for a while.
Googled it. Saudi Arabia (duh).
Wheeee - a buck a pound? DANG. Don't I wish.
Three bucks for a pound of silver? I'd have run off with that too! At mine I can't even get stainless for that. The palm tree and swords... Libya?
I think it's supposed to be the back of a scarab. I had a ring for a while with a real scarab (age unknown) in a flip setting. This ring looks...
Makes me wonder if we shot him or not. He wasn't worth the price of a bullet, but definitely not worth the price of jugging him. Some of those...
It looks like Japanese anime. Buzz does not look impressed.
I didn't even attempt to read the whole thing. Yike. I'm guessing the guy was trying to keep things businesslike, which makes it even scarier....
70s would be dead on for a mood ring, and I recognize the style of ring as being from that era. Spelling the word out generally indicates an...
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