Or cat ladies. You can't take painted furniture to bed with you. Unless it's a box of course???
Another reason for using dowels is that back when, metal bits were expensive but local wood was cheap. If you were a subsistence farmer, i.e. a...
It can trash the paint on painted bakelite. On those pieces if I have to test, I test on already worn spots because any chemical test will take...
Those glass knobs have been on there for a long, long time. I'd have left them too unless you could get appropriate drop-shaped pulls .
I can generally just eyeball bakelite at this point. The mistakes are usually a nice grade of lucite and so no problem. I reserve the chemical...
I'm weird. I go to all of the above except fleas. Those are usually on Sundays in these parts and I'm in church. All the others are fair game....
Vintage means 20 to 99 years old these days, although some things may be antique earlier. It's a "plop me in the house and use me" table.
Amen. I'd say it's 100% costume, especially with those Ballou backs; I've never seen them done in precious metal.
Now that I've used, but I think today it's only done with precious metals.
Sometimes it's the same thing! True Hollywood Regency is a bit earlier, but the two mesh together quite well.
I sold one that was the OP's identical twin clown not long ago. Went locally to another dealer for not much, but at least it was gone. I don't...
Hit one of those once. The ex gave her some jewelry and she sold me box and all for $30. I tried to offer her more and she wouldn't take it....
I can't see the rest from here. I tried. The shiny stuff is probably rhodium; it's used to give white gold or silver (or other metal) a hard...
The bracelet has a sterling mark(3d photo, left side) The peeling bit could be rhodium coating; they add it to prevent tarnish.
Nice! The new brasses look like they fit its face much better.
Thanks. Meanwhile "powder glass" is understood here to be African recycled glass rather than fancy factory cut or molded pieces.
You big spender you.
They sure want to be real, but as stated there's no way to tell from a photo.
The guy who owned the place owed the gallery owner? :):):) Wouldn't surprise me.
I thought paste was a specific sort of older glass. Maybe it used to be.
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