Found a box of pinbacks yesterday marked "buttons $5". I opened it thinking sewing buttons and found these instead, along with some friends. The...
I normally don't work from a pattern, never mind an old one. The square turned up in a bad 70s mat in a local thrift. It all but fell apart when...
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Nice! The seller could have made a few more bucks if he/she had taken a dry toothbrush to her before listing.
Mine self-corrects when I put my glasses on. My niece has one too. She called Mom when it was diagnosed and I just kind of shrugged.(LOL)
I know strabismus quite well; I've got one.(LOL) Dunno if they're related.
NICE! That sterling bowl is a score! (the froggie is random metal; I don't recognize that mark at all.) Hit an estate sale today in the last...
They taught me, much good it did them. Too many years of taking too many notes too quickly killed my handwriting dead. I'm actually neater...
Nice hunk - an MCM freak would put a metal stand under it and call it Finished. It would make a heckuva table. I live about five miles up the...
Except that no Americans other than a few would know the term. Me included.(LOL)
If I were the seller I'd be yelling bloody murder even if I got to keep the money. It's a pre-cites item and too nice to be turned into kindling.
If that inlay was ivory, that would do it. The bots strike again. (argggh!!!) One more reason I only offload ivory locally.
Might have been a lingerie pin too, but it looks like a diaper pin. Someone was changing a nappy and off it flew, never to be seen again until a...
Nice! I see bits of Peruvian work but never Guatemalan of any sort. And with an embassy engraving? Pretty sweet.
The trombone clasp didn't come in until the 1890s, so it couldn't be Georgian. The stones might be quartz for all I'd know, but since it's a...
No wonder I don't know it then; I haven't been in a mall in years.(LOL)
I'd have said mid-1950s, right off. They're usually populated with what I call Fake Fragonards.
Yep. It's in need of a seat.(LOL) Useful little critter.
Good for fishing out pins in sewing work too. Or pins on the effing rug, where I usually find them the hard way!
Not a name I've ever seen before.
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