Selling it might be a bit of a bear, but for $9 that's stealing.
Welcome .. bienvenudo, from a serial overaccumulator.
Photos of rest of it might help figure out whodunnit. I'd be looking inside the drawers for more marks. My great-grandfather helped design some...
Can we see the whole thing? Does it have railroad markings? Which line/station was it from? I was raised by a rail nut.
Ouch. It looks like the sort of thing I take apart and remake or at least restring. Those cotton cords ... well, those cotton cords is all I can...
But if she does, I want to be first in line! :greedy::greedy::greedy::smuggrin::smuggrin::smuggrin:
Thanks. Probably worth about what I paid - a dollar.
I went to an estate sale and on impulse picked this up for a buck. The former owner had traveled to China often on business and my guess is Japan...
I'm older than he is; I used it first.
I went out hunting today, and for once I also went out finding. First stop turned out to be a re-stop. Spent $2 on not a lot ... and realized as...
It is pure 80s ... and are we sure it's glass?
I've seen that before too, on said Indian-made sword.
Butterscotch works too.
Nice find on the bowl; a lot of people figure those ornate whatsits for plated yuck from some post-WWII American company. Not so much in this...
Dinner party at MrNate's house! Wheeee! And I thought I did well today!
Sure looks like egg yolk amber from here!. Nice amber too.
I'm getting Indian, probably 1980s; the guard doesn't "smell" old.
Same here, on the Japanese part at least.
Unfortunately these days real wood block tends to sell for peanuts too. Dagnabbit, but at least we fans can get them cheaply.
I'd think it held tobacco tools too, or some such. These days I'd keep hand sewing needles in it if it's long enough. It might also work for...
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