I never allow autocorrect - too many mistakes. But intrigued by what you might be typing that's so demonic. Aatan?
My immediate impression was that it was molten metal, as others have said, iron slag, that was poured into water, froze into that sort of...
My favorite too.
Maybe, like a quilt, the carpet was made in squares/rectangles that were then sewn together?
Fun fact to know & tell. :)
Nah. The day will come when you have something to post that makes the rest of us drool -it's part of the fun. :)
Nope. And not Gustave nor Jean Marie: [ATTACH]
Wouldn't they have needed only one of these? Unless the letters scratched on the front are Roman numerals for the year & the design was used for...
In which case, we may be looking at a set up for refilling a fountain pen with less risk of ink everywhere.
It's the upper part of something. Maybe capped a glass bottle, now broken? That ink was involved seems a reasonable surmise, with that screw on...
There were a Gustave Michel & a Jean Marie Michel working as medalists in France in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
Second place. 'Michel' would be the name of the medal engraver. What are the letters on the front? I don't think I'm seeing them correctly....
It may not really be the correct term, but a search for 'bakelite bead crib toy' produces many similar looking items.
LOL. There was an awful episode, many years before that, when a couple of boys said another boy had fallen in with a bear at another of the...
No, but one time I stopped where one of the lion pairs were lounging in the late afternoon sun a good distance away & began thinking at them how...
Truly. The cutter was competent & could have made quite a nice piece, if only he had copied from a decent composition. No way to know if these...
You should have heard me calmly suggesting to her that she would really like to have this nice pine cone rather than my forefinger, wouldn't she?...
Reading this after replying to thread with your marvelous kyratisations. I still want to know what this Japanese Mothra creature was that got...
I was thinking some might be from teething, if the metal is soft enough.
We will have to wait for the members who are expert at recognizing silver marks to give their opinions. I can only do it when they are easy. :)
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