Wipe them carefully with a damp microfibre cloth, then give them a good rub over with a soft old towel. No brasso! No polish! sunshine cloth if...
Thats not uncommon for natural shell.
Chester draws.
Coalport did lovely flower painting. You’ve convolvulus, auricula and ranunculus.
I’d vote shell. That pinky tinge.
I love the fact that it’s so heterogeneous, and so varied even with a square mile. And genuinely mixed: there’s very very few areas which are...
I sold an art deco ashtray to a nice woman in Australia, who saw me post it for identification on Facebook and begged me for it. Ashtray was a...
English, early nineteenth or late eighteenth. A good maker, someone like Coalport.
The denizens of the different villages of London have a tendency to regard other villages with suspicion. And they do vary wildly in character,...
Shaoshan stone.
Heavy or light? I’d contact the PAS.
Honorary Brit!
I’m with cocktail shaker on this.
Their thirties glass is often very modern looking indeed. I’d think spot on with it being the manufacturing number. Orrefors really don’t do dates...
It doesn’t look at all Iberian to me, especially with that enamel. I’m wondering farther east. Türkiye maybe, given the cat lovers there.
Davidson Pearline, that is.
You don’t want sherry stored where air can get at it, likewise port. It oxidises.
I could bore you with the equations, I’ll resist. But yea, a paste of bicarbonate on a mucky oven, warm. Leave it a few hours, wipe off. See also...
South of the River = here be dragons. If you’re Norf London.
It’s a garter belt, specifically. Clan badges do us that, often, but I’m not sure this is a clan motto. Hm.
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