That is utterly bonkers.
Can't decide what forum this fits! A rather fab smoking set, but does anyone recognise the mark please? (It's a bit like a Wembley lion)...
I can't work out what the base flowers are meant to be but yeah, not waterlilies. Mine! [ATTACH]
The NHS is basically free, mostly, at the point of delivery As davey says, once you retire you don't pay NI. Nor do you pay it on a low income,...
Mid to late 19th Staffordshire, it's a deorator's mark.
Good thought. I think I've another piece with the same sponsor mark. Somewhere!
It's absolutely typical in style of late 19th into early 20th rings here too. I've a couple very similar, inherited from a dear friend. Georgian...
The Bear loves seventies jewellery. And sixties too. Avant garde, stylish and chunky. This thing is HEAVY. I am, again, lost in admiration at...
Scotland and Wales get free prescriptions. The most you can pay for drugs is a little over £100 a year in England, but many are exempt. Waits for...
With difficulty, and sometimes Excel. ;)
Lovely pendant, London import marks. I really ought to know who ELd is! Anyone got a working brain please? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I've seen these. The tops are millefiori and yes, they're made in India. Possibly using Chinese canes, but millefiori is produced all over.
Puce rather than pink, which might help on a search. Woods did a lot of these.
Yup, water lilies.I grow those.
Gah. I've GOT some Rogaska.
Certainly dichroic. I've a couple of very similar ones. How very lovely of him.
And Czech or German.
Pigeons here tend to just sit on roof ridges like fat vultures. And fly singly. That looks more gullish.
I'd agree on English, Staffordshire made early to mid 19th. Bit shallow for bowls, might be underplates.
This thread has degnerated, hasn't it. ;)
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