A keeper if it were mine.
I'm not sure it's a repair, it's odd - there's nothing that looks like the remains of damage. It's more as though it was when the original...
That date sounds about right, this was used a great deal as a decorative motif around the late 19th to early 20th. Coincided with the early SF...
Ask on the Bitossi Facebook page, they'll know. That mottle is often Fratelli Fantiullaci.
Bit earlier, with that hinge. 20s or 30s.
I've got rather a lot of Maltese glass.
Mtarfa Glass, Malta.
Peggy, those are trombone clasps, so the brooches are probably French or thereabouts. Filigran, indeed. I've some nice pieces from Ohrid in...
1990 is far more likely with that scribed signature.
It isn't made on Murano and not even made in Italy, sometimes. Very deceptive labels these. Some are at least made in Empoli but not all. I see...
Three quid is about right. Poole would be twice that or a bit more.
These are made in China as nice giftware.
The bracelet was a separate win from the same seller - no one else bid! Hence the £2.69 in coins as a postage refund. It's not marked, but I've...
The powder is way better and it's very useful stuff.
I've seen those!
It's a very typical shape. The lids, if they had them, were wooden.
It was indeed the fishy. Nice Chinese export silver. I thought from the photo that it was the usual size, too. I'm keeping that and the sort of...
It might be jade, I'm not sure, I need to stare at it. The fish is fabulous - there's a teeny weeny mark.
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Bought this lot - well, two lots from the most delightful Ebay seller. She was trying to work out how to combine the postage, but as I'd already...
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