Perhaps not silver plated, but tinned?
That's really beautiful...an' the easel (there is surely a better name for it, but...) is a fine piece of carved art as well. Thanks!
WOW! I didn't know about that property of lead, nor the term diamagnetic. I'm glad to learn of it, an' sorry to have posted my ignorance publicly.
EXCELLENT! Thanks, INH...great link! Because that's what it is! Both good links, Komo...Thanks!
Please note: Lead has no iron in it, therefore cannot be even slightly magnetic.
Yeah...it's not something you'd look at an' forget. I've no idea about origin, but it grabbed me hard, so I brought it home. My Lady hasn't seen...
This is obviously a matter of little import...but the right an' bottom characters seem, to my admittedly unschooled eyes, to be more like Korean...
A very nice handful, that!
Hmm...neither fish nor fowl.
That's a sweet piece of clay!
I doubt it, seriously.
Quite a few large bubbles inna glass...but no pontil that I can discern from the neck (well enough aged into its packing that the glass cannot be...
That's my sense of the age, too...maybe as early as the 1st couple decades 20th C.
What I see in both the 'eye', an' in the hole bored through the body, are machine tool impressions...the uniformity of the circular cuts; an' in...
It's 2 7/16" long, 1 7/16" wide; the agate ojime is ~3/8" diameter. It weighs ~2 1/2 oz. It was a recent gift from an old friend, an' I'm tickled...
It's all perspective, Debora...but I agree; weird.
Those sizes were measured...an' are accurate.
Agreed, con mucho gusto!
VERY good, INH...those are essentially identical, save for the place of origin. I think the date is accurate, an' could only wish they had shown...
Non! These are food preparation tools. I am no smarter than I was in February about how they were designed to be used.
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