Not hot milk, we'd shudder at adding that to tea. And I'm not seeing an insulator on the handle.
That base looks replaced maybe. Do the tops lift off? That form usually does. No reason they'd not come from Hever, it's common for stuff to get...
Too right! ;)
There's a number above Lahore. 4 then ? That last line looks like V W apostrophe C
It isn't majolica,imo.
Absolutely not Challenger or Endeavour. I saw Enterprise on the back of the NASA 747 flying down the Thames.
Me too, unless I wanted to wear them. Clasps are pretty recent.
I want that. It's not any of the shuttles, but yes, microwave tower, radio telescope. Not a satellite. One of the orbiters and I ought to know...
I'd never have thought it that recent. Maybe a peroxide soak!
You got a bargain. It isn't malachite, as it's blue, not green glass. Bohemian, 1920s into 30s.
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I'd have thought 20s into 30s.
The hinge looks early 20th to my eye. Is it possible the blue was a later addition?
Filigree could also be Portuguese.
It does look good.
It's certainly Catholic and Mediterranean is a good possibility.
Those edelweiss are often ivory.
Someone glued a new cheapish clasp on that. I'm half thinking it started out as a buckle.
I suspect it's from a rosary. Might be olive wood.
Late 19th to me.
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