That too - despite what some sellers locally have tried to tell me over the years.
It looks like a lot of the design was stamped in by hand. Someone did an awful lot of work on it.
More like a palm leaf or something similar. It's shaped like a leaf carving on a piece of furniture, at least to me.
...and after losing two tonight, they bounced off the string as I was putting them on their new one, I gave up for the night. It's a 54 inch...
They're about 4mm, but even so there's a pile of them.
I went into a random antique/junkque/stuff store this weekend on my way home from that bust of a community sale. Picked up an OddFellows watch...
Beat me to it. "German silver" = "Nevada Silver" = nickel alloy.
Pretty thing. Display it with fake flowers in it - give 'em some ideas. No one uses pitchers any more, but anyone can use a vase. If you're...
Some places here have town-wide tag sales too, once a year. Similar stuff - rusty junk, avocado-colored plastic, baby stuff, etc. Once in a...
The seven digit phone number and lack of zip code puts the framing squarely into the 50s or early 60s, and the embroidery jibes with that. Asian...
Same here. I ran into some long hallmarked 14k strips that turned out to be edges from a book (probably a prayer book) but the book was long...
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My first reaction was "her brain is showing!"
Something to do with architectural or engineering drawing. K&E manufacturers probably IIRC.
American rummage = jumble sale. Those really can be gold mines. I do envy your boot sales - all of the "tag sales" in town, all in one place.
Now that was a haul! I fantasize about piles like that! Today I hoped for unheralded silver and got ... $7 in costume. It was a community...
Post-WWII German is my guess, from the way it's made. The Southern half of the country is heavily Catholic, at least officially. It could be...
And so it begins....:greedy::greedy::bigtears::bigtears::bigtears::D:D:D
Yep. They were still circulating during the first World War. Later too, probably. I found a half thaler here once, come to it; someone had...
1970-something into the 80s, probably. Why?
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