If you're looking for something to compare it to, you might try searching...spatter glass basket, rigaree handle. Nice find, as others have said,...
As to your question re cleaning, these boxes were generally aluminum and if pitted, there is not much you could to to remedy that. I would take...
It's a musical powder box, sometimes used for jewelry as loose powder is not as commonly used now. Probably dates to late 1940's-50's.
I like it, and I think you are right about the age, it's reminds me of the ever popular horse/clock combinations of that era. There are collectors...
It almost appears to be soil residue in the crimped portion of the bowl, I wonder if it was used as a planter, with a candle in the inner bowl....
Maybe an arranged marriage??? The two crimped pieces have the look of Fenton, but the chimney has a satin finish and the lining of the white bowl...
Google shows several Shelley lemonade sets, but all with tumblers rather than cups. Yours would be more practical, as the cups could also serve as...
The serious linen mavens become aghast at the mere mention of bleach in the care of linens, but I am using table and bed linens passed to me from...
Try wetting it with a slightly dampened finger or dusting with cornstarch, sometimes that makes writing stand out clearly.
Under Hoselton it says Canada. The number 399 is probably their mold number, if it was a limited edition, it would indicate a number...
Isn't that a signature in the striated base? Looks like Fal??? maybe with a copyright symbol preceding.
You caught my error typing pewter before I had a chance to edit to correct 'cast aluminum'. You're very quick:arghh:. lol.
Hoselton, Ontario, Canada. I think most of their work was in cast aluminum.
See the small hole in your last photo, that was a vent to allow air to escape in the manufacturing process, if they feel solid and hefty, it may...
I know how you feel (from bitter experience). The giveaway on yours is the vent hole, Victorian carpet balls were a solid mass of maybe stoneware...
Pretty sure these are transfer printed fake carpet balls. Hobby Lobby had bins of them about 12-15 yrs. ago, but I only recall those ones in one...
Thanks so much for this further information Ownedbybear, not the first time errors have been revealed in books. Estee Lauder have been marketing...
Interesting, Roselyn Gerson, Vintage & Vogue Ladies' Compacts, 2nd edition, says:--"Kigu stopped making compacts and manufactured costume jewelry...
Checked my books on compacts and could not find this "KARETTE" model. The Kigu company stopped production in the late 1950's early 1960's, so we...
Could have been for cologne or toilet water. Women at one time mixed their own concoctions such as glycerin and rosewater and looked for pretty...
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