I missed the question! The first one, why is it older? The hinge for one thing is early. But the whole thing smells Georgian. It’s very finely...
I swear that says gumball.
First looks dead right for Georgian black dot to my eye. The back, the look and cut of the stones. Second is later. I think late nineteenth into...
They’re pretty and they’re quality and way better than mass market modern. Buying bits and bobs because you like them is a pretty good start point.
Ah, gotcha! Yes, agreed.
I don’t think they’d have ebonised coromandel, it was prized for its stripes.
Brit here. If you’re buying the little silver plate thing for yourself, that’s fine, but the resale value would be minimal sadly. Same with the...
Vendome?
The label has no useful clues, annoyingly. If it said London W, for example, that would help. But going on style, I’d think that 1860 ish is...
Good thinking on the label. You could also wrap the base in clingfilm.
Oh, I want that, badly.
It’s not even well painted.
It’s going to be mid fifties. We weren’t really making fun furniture much in the forties, it was still all Utility stuff. That criss cross pattern...
Very wise dear!
Rosewood is protected too, it’s lovely wood.
My grandfather, who I never knew as he died when I was six months old, treasured it, as well as other things. Those went to my Pa, including...
Blimey that’s fighting talk!
Tiffin? Those are lovely.
A cruet here means a complete set with a stand generally. Spare room wallpaper. That vicious yellow with black tramlines. The woodwork was...
I had the dead man’s penny for my great uncle, who went down on HMS Crecy. Gave it to my cousins son, who’s the one who’s custodian of family history.
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