It astonishes sometimes me that you can still find stuff that's over two hundred years old hidden in a box of tut. Nice eye, bou.
That's late 19th.
1920s/30s clasp and hinge. Sterling was used widely as a mark then. I think bassett.
Oh, of course it's Asian Pheasants. duh. Those transfers got sold to loads of factories.
It's sort of Navajo/Dineh. Might be signed under the label. Aj, there were still Harvey hotels when I first went to the SW and El Tovar is still...
Plant pot is certainly Italian and sixties. Not Bitossi, one of the others. Might be the FF one who I can't spell. Your blue transfer meat...
why do you think it's a British repro?
Fair point. I'm going on having hefted both aluminium ones and alloy ones round a fair few places!
Natural was used back in the day to mean cultured. Very reputable jeweller in an expensive part of London. That's the year they closed down. They...
I'm thinking about the R T. I did have one thought: much Emirati or Saudi sold silver was and is made in India.
It's certainly Saudi Arabia, but not when we were there. That emblem is no earlier than 1950. It's quite common for Middle Eastern countries to...
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Oh lord, of course it is, I should have spotted that. I've got some of their stuff.
It's modern giftware and I've seen that label. I'm now trying to remember who it is. Three candles. Oh, got it. Partylite.
Copyright symbol means not that old, and it's 925 silver. I'll bet that 93 is a date.
Spelter type alloys is probably a better term. It's the heaviness of this that makes me think not aluminium. That, and the lack of damage.
Argyll will be the shape name.
It'll be called something like Turkish carpet or Persian carpet if it even has a name. Photos of the bottoms are useful whether marked or not.
The reason I asked about the metal colour is because I suspect it's spelter. These often are. I think yours is an older copy, maybe 60s ish. The...
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