We have interesting houses. don’t get me started on sodding grey everywhere.
I’d think mid to late nineteenth and Staffordshire, yes.
Foiled glass, nicely done.
Absolute bargain. Whoever scratched it is a total idiot. These were often brass for a start.
I think it’s foreign, and probably French. I’m sure I’ve seen that mark too. The F is faience.
I am so still really enjoying this thread.
I’d think the stamp relates to who it was made for.
AHA! Triunfi Petrarchae.
You'd probably have more luck in London. That's not very helpful of me, I know.
Second word is Petrarchae. I can’t quite get the first.
I surmise that’s ht rather than mt. As in height or heights.
Scratching my head here, we don’t have a Mount Dover.
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Persian turquoise that.
Fur clips had much longer pins though.
Makes the live grenade found at one I go to look positively tame.
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