Vegetable ivory - I would strongly advise against biting the stuff, even raw. But yep, tagua nut.
Spellings weren't standardized in the USA for another 40 years or so. I'm not really surprised about the mis-spellings.
Gelatin print for sure. Date... 1890-1900 or thereabouts. No way to be sure where it came from, or even which country.
Greetings! Go hit a yard sale for me; I"m stuck in CT and it's too cold here yet for yard sales.
Greetings!
Looks like a desk to me, at least originally. Use it for whatever you want. It's not old, 90s or later.
If it's gold-plated silver it could be both silver-marked and look like brass. OTOH I've seen Tibetan and Nepalese pieces with nice stones set in...
I think he wants to be a popcorn bowl.
Gold setting for sure. The cameo might be bisque porcelain; Wedgwood made some that look similar.
The inside diameter of a ring can be used to figure out ring size, if you google a chart. The hole in the ring where your finger goes. Stone...
Yup. Saw the post over there. I was on the fence, D&E not being my strong suit.
For most beads and such, close enough is close enough. If you need fractional millimeters for setting or replacing stones and the like then a...
Since mine are strictly analog, nope. I'm not all that fond of things that require batteries to work if the non-electric works well enough for my...
I have one almost exactly like the OPs. Use it all the time. IN is used to measure holes. Out is used to measure the outside of something, often...
:eek::eek::wideyed::wideyed::wideyed::wideyed::wideyed: I'd have run off with that SO FAST. A friggin' MACINTOSH design, authorized, for a...
1970s costume is my guess. The hardware is odd, but I've seen it before. German maybe?
If it's as big as I'm guessing, it's a Victorian sugar bowl.
A chrystanethemum can be either Japanese or Chinese, but that phoenix complicates things. It could be from anywhere but where I'd like it to be...
1950s is my guess, from the metal.
No idea. The scholarly gentlemen are kind of cool. That "buyer" sounds like nothing but trouble; I'd block the non-paying blockhead before he can...
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