That’s petrified wood, I’ve got some. You can see the phloem xylem and cambium. I did tree structures long ago……
They look like moomins. I bet that’s Japanese. They do cute.
It’s these folks, part of the British museum. https://finds.org.uk/
I might run it past the Portable Antiquities people, I think.
It may well be signed.
I went to Acoma, years ago, it’s the most wonderful place.
Totally forgot to answer the very reasonable questions! It’s some kind of carved relatively hard and reasonably light stone. Maybe Portland stone....
... and the mirror will be a mirror, not polished silver.
Cheryl, I know enough to be dangerous! I know that retrieval issue: head full of Stuff, if only I can find it. Bit like my house.
That’s also the sixties into seventies Brierley etched mark. They’d had a royal warrant for decades. But didn’t always add the word Royal to...
That coffee pot is fabulous.
VG is often foiled or silvered, unlike French jet. I wore vintage like mad, just like you. Ma had things that she’d had made in the forties and...
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SN is the decorator, the other mark which looks like -x- will be the assistant or sub assistant. That’s the late nineteenth mark. I can’t remember...
Ah, I think you’re right. Vauxhall then and be very very careful how you clean it. Soft brush, then sunshine cloth.
That plaque style was used by Schafer und vater. She does look a bit Germanic to me. Or Austrian.
I think it’s fine. Looks to me like a mid to late nineteenth Chinese style lion, emulating Chinese glaze colours. Minton did lovely blues like...
Is the glass silvered on the back or not?
Vauxhall glass or French jet, might be either. That’s an earlier hinge, so early to mid 19th. Get a soft toothbrush and a bit of vinegar or spray...
I sold a nice aldermaston pottery dish through Rosebery, and some butterscotch amber and other bits for a friend through Toovey’s. The dish was...
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