Early on, "brass age" autos had chemically powered brake lights and headlights. I forget what they used, but I don't think it was kerosene....
Good luck with that! This place has me buying glassware, cameos etc. No furniture luckily - I'm out of space!
Too true, but it's too bad things aren't sold the way they are at estate sales - fixed price with possible negotiation.
They're all on line here too. I've bid on a few things but they always go too high.
We don't have the scale so it's hard to be sure. Meant as a rear light for something though; that's what the red lens means.
Brake light? It wasn't meant to be removable easily, looks like. The kerosene guts are missing.
It was the only WWI/trench-related term I could think of that started with an A and fit the rest of the letters.
Late 20th century. Beyond that, dunno.
That's about where I'd have landed too. Lots of recycled glass beads come out of assorted parts of Africa and they're not shiny.
Arras? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arras_(1914) Looks like....
Too bad someone damaged the buttons, Ratsy, but at least they survived.
i.e. not much! I'm glad someone else appreciates it. Finally! Uranium glass finds a home, STEM kids geek out on it, but the other pieces have...
I love a good mistake, especially when it's someone else's!...
I want IN IN IN! Or more to the point In In! Thanks! I have more than I know what to do with, but... always room for one more. The second one...
Found a junk lot for @Bookahtoo https://ebay.us/lBOX8g It has at least one VERY interesting movie/TV still in the lot.
From the way the bail is made, I'd be thinking late 1960s "revival". It's made to look like one of the really old pieces without actually fooling...
Congrats on scoring what OUGHT to be a Harry Potter movie prop.:singing::singing::singing:
I've never seen those marks, but then we don't get South American silverplate.
We're getting yet more snow this weekend and more next week.
The Oddfellows was/were, for certain. They don't have the magic ritual overtones that the Masons do/did and were known for doing good things,...
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