Thanks. I may have overpaid a bit but it's cool. They flattened it a bit so it can't spin.
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The ring is silver for the most part with copper and blue stones(?) on top. It's an artisan piece maybe. On the off chance, does anyone...
Hess? It looks like one of those "starving artist" paintings. Probably a decorator piece.
Some stuff apparently goes straight to the Bins, and some is last stop before the junk pile, but really good things do slip through. Remember the...
We had a New Haven RR bell for yoinks, until the tree my dad had it attached to needed to come down. It was, I think, iron, and was painted too....
If that's a railroad bell I'd have gotten help getting it out to my car. The bronze alone is worth more than that! Yowza. I wonder which C&W it...
Thirded. I love the colors in the landscape.
I'll probably be selling it locally, but it's definitely not staying.
The R on the back doesn't jibe with Egyptian too well unless it's a trans-Med mushel.
That's about what I figured. Thought they might be French, but no way they were old enough to be Sevres.
Not today. Silverplate. (wahhht wah) got a piece with "soft" handles and no marks. Took it home and... nope.
From the look of the bead end these are molded rather than drilled.
SILVER ones next time! (LOL)
It was waiting for you. It's the sort of thing I bring home and remake, but I'm an addict.
My guess would be not, but you never know. The bows do look older than Edwardian to me too.
Dang that's a pile. I mostly just hoard jewelry; it fits in a much smaller space. I can't get away with hauling in the bigger stuff.
You can date the machine from the serial number. She looks like someone rode her hard and put her away wet as it were.
I was surprised to find it there in the last hour of the sale. I think the candle wax on the inside threw people.
Go for it! The mark isn't in my Kovel's book so I'm wondering.
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