Botanically correct flowers, too. Whilst everyone thinks of these as English country garden, they nigh on all originated overseas.
Necklace is very nice Bohemian/Czech between the wars.
I've seen ley on Spanish pieces. As Cheryl says, it's the official term.
I bet it had a fake pearl.
I have many Romanian neighbours, including one called Simona, so I thought that might be the origin. We've got some fabulous local food shops -...
West German by the look of it.
I've seen it on stuff imported to here, sometimes from Indonesia.
He's in the UK, could tell from the photos. Provincial here generally means made outside major cities or manufacturing sites, often refers to the...
I think you're right!
Early nineteenth English oak provincial chair. Country made, as they say.
I'd keep the boxed brooch, it's lovely. On books, I've never really found any that are authoritative sources, to be honest. When you can, go...
And the Bateman mark lifts them significantly beyond ordinary Georgian spoons.
Late 90s indeed and fab. Had stuff like that. I used to shop in the Cache store in the Glendale Galleria. Lovely clothes, still got some....
Holy .... something. My kind of picking, go for new and high retail as well as old. ;)
The lockets need testing, many Edwardian and Victorian ones weren't marked. Number 1 is a very nice late 19th C rolled gold piece with seed...
It may even be modern Asian, there are some very nice ones being produced.
Oh, @KSW treasures! Read that in a Gollum voice. ;)
Your table is 1920s or 30s, might be by Olde Charme or similar. Yes, you paid retail but you got way better long lasting value than modern tat. I...
I have some Whiting and Davis ones. The big mesh one is Oroton, who are and were an Australian company. This one was made in West Germany though...
Got a UV light? That's a decent test.
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