This is the one I mentioned: [ATTACH] This is the one AJ is pointing out: [ATTACH] And scout's: [ATTACH]
Think RL photos are copy protected. The bangle AJ found is similar in the 'stones'; this one strikes me as being similar in the painting:...
In my mental image of people enjoying a pre-dinner cocktail, they are not doing so at the table. But it would be awkward to be milling around...
I have never even heard of these. What sort of thing might one be using it to pick up? As for the original post, were you suggesting that these...
I do vaguely know that much, but would really have to be surreptitiously looking at others to be sure of getting it right. It's a similar...
Really great photos. I can't see any of the telltale signs of any type of etching either. Working out the symbolism was in my field of...
My stepmother was a nurse & had half a drawer full of white slips. After she died I took the cotton ones & they're perfect nightgowns for the...
Polishing removes a little silver every time. One thing for solid silver, for plate...
'EP' is probably for electroplate. Yep. E P - C = electroplated copper. https://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_E.html
I would know how to use the salt & pepper shakers.
Sounds very saintly.
You are right. To become a book illustration, someone had to translate the painting into a form that could be used to easily make multiples. We...
It is. But a lot of the fun of it for Americans is how it portrays the running of a great house and works in tidbits about life attended to by an...
From what I have heard of Queen Victoria's appetite, she ate everything with a bread pusher.
Welcome, Chandler. Interesting info on English table setting practices. Sure, but please select the choice to make any photos full size.
Natural pearls are only very rarely spherical, & command huge sums when they are found. Most of us have probably only ever seen spherical pearls...
One of the things that stuck with me from the movie Gosford Park was the explanation for why there was one fork with the pieces to the right of...
They're Greek, not Russian. Artist's name is Α. Μιχάνος, which would transliterate as A. Michanos, but I'm not finding anything in a quick...
More like filleted. If you get the chance, watch Martha show how it's done.
https://www.acsilver.co.uk/acsnews/2016/03/24/fish-knives-fish-forks-etiquette/ At the end of the section on What is a fish knife, there's a link...
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