Are you sure the bowl is cut and not pressed flashed? I'd agree the other is late 19th ish.
The four blocks and b is Florence Bowditch listed in 1882 as a junior assistant. The only one close to that other mark is Kate Russell, also 1882...
Book found. OK, the star is not in it. Blast. And annoyingly, nor is there an OO on its own. There's others with an initial in front, so it may...
I think the inlay is wood of some kind.
That looks like a stylised upside down Alpha and Omega.
Leave it be, it's part of its history.
Oh god, sowwy. Laters, I promise.
The modelling is magnificent. If it's not Neiger, it's a comparable maker.
Tray! The link, in a way, with yours is that they were part of an academic movement for design. Now if I can only find some Newlyn School...
I can get photos of the bottom of mine if it helps. ;)
Absolutely. The 1948 Olympics were very much make do and mend. Athletes put up in local hostels and homes even. A small number of the venues...
I'm so lapsed it's last century! I keep mine for sentiment.
I'd be looking at Neiger on that. Absolutely 20s. Superb thing.
West German, it will be numbers with a / separator.
Try bog oak. Typical for Irish rosaries. I'd think forties or fifties. Still have my grandmothers' rosaries, both were converts to Catholicism.
Hah. 2012 stuff is fairly common here, 1948, not.
Denada! Yeah, faience. Tin glazed terracotta.
Heh. It's this -...
Mark knows his stuff. He covets a couple of my pieces. ;)
Cap badge, maybe? I'd have grabbed that.
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