The images are post-Brasso. I was very sparing in my use of it, but the outside was looking like the inside. A quick application and rub with a...
This heavy solid brass or bronze pot belonged to my great-grandmother, or so I was told. My mother kept it on her hearth full of fat pine...
A new edition is in the works and is expected in October.
In November of 1861, a US warship stopped and boarded the British steamer RMS Trent and arrested two Confederate diplomats. The British government...
I wish I could find an image with Gustave Deflin's signature to compare. I've looked since you posted this, but without luck.
For years, I assumed they were peaches, and wondered it Omaha had peach orchards.
I don't have any Black Americana spoons, but I have several that depict homes or event or locations associated with the Civil War, including some...
You've given me a wealth of information on these. Stand by, I may have to share the rest of my spoons!
This insignia is still in use today. The 29th Division was called the "Blue and Gray" as it was formed in WW1 from state regiments from the north...
My grandfather found these in a burned-out house in France during the Great War. The artist's name is Deflin, but I've never been able to find any...
And these: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A Yukon souvenir with a gold nugget on the handle, and a Doughboy of...
Nothing as nice as those shared by https://www.antiquers.com/members/dragonflywink.111/, but here are some of my favorites: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Never liked Tab, but I always liked the commercial with the bikini-clad woman strolling on the beach.
This site needs a "love" button, since "like" doesn't cover some things! Stunning spoons, and now I'm inspired to get some of my nicer ones out to...
Sorry about that. I didn't realize at first that the tablespoons had a different mark than the teaspoons.
Your spoons are triple plate, '12oz' indicating 12 troy ounces used for plating per gross on the tablespoons, and '6oz' indicating 6 troy ounces...
So the mark does NOT indicate the weight of the spoon, obviously. The tablespoons, marked 12oz, weigh 58 to 60 grams, and the teaspoons average...
I know Clemens Oskamp did sterling, coin, and plated flatware. How well were they marked? I'm pretty sure these are plated, but I wanted to check...
I had a bag of scrap and damaged sterling (bent spoons, badly dented stuff that I wasn't going to have repaired), nothing old or collectible, and...
Just today, I drove to the drugstore to request a refill Rx, rather than call on the phone.
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