I’ll get some more tomoz. Too dark now. ;)
Oho. Very close, thanks honey.
Supposedly, many were used as ballast, too.
They show up a lot on the Thames foreshore, those.
Yes, I’ve seen that cannetile on pieces from Macedonia too, but Austria makes sense.
I’ve one clichy. Bought it at a car boot for three quid and it’s fabulous. A scramble on sodden snow, circa 1850. I’ve also some thirties...
Put a liner in first.
They’re German, made by one of the pforzheim companies. Anything from there is lovely quality always.
They made lovely glass millennia ago, and there’s some super twenties weights. I think it’s more that there’s a realisation that better glass...
I’ve rather a lot of chain strung glass beads like this, and I think Indian too. There’s some Czech ones, but they look more like glass agate.
There’s a mad clearance bloke at my car boot who does fifty pence each or three for a quid. Cheerfully foul mouthed and there’s a lot of bantz. I...
There’s some very nice glass being made in China and Asia generally.
The more I look, the more I think they are at least Roman and possibly earlier than that. They’ve got that quality of not exactly crudeness but...
I adore random filthy boxes. It’s how I found the Georgian enamel needle holder for fifty pence.
Oysters, yum. Once the food of the poor here.
Oh yes.
I’ve louped them, and the layers sort of blur in. They tooth tap like stone or glass, and they’re unevenly made, so done by hand I think. A couple...
Aj, they’re actually solid, that’s what’s odd. It’s like three slices, but there’s no joins. If that makes sense.
I absolutely think a later restring with a mix. The blue ones are very odd. Like a layered stone and the colour is lapis. good thought on lens.
I suspect these are restrung, but what do we reckon about the blue banded ones? They seem older. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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