I've some favourite car boot sale people. They've carefully pointed out damage or cracks to me in case I missed them. In return, I'll let them...
It really encourages people to declare finds rather than hiding them, and that's a major plus.
Sorry! Portable Antiquities Scheme, brilliant bunch. https://finds.org.uk/
If it were in the UK, I'd be asking the PAS.
It's mine,I lost them, send them back!
Shamrock, rather than clover if it's Irish. Not Navajo, certainly and it's not a typically Irish style either. I'm more inclined to somewhere like...
Tarnex is Silver Dip. I'd never ever use it on anything like a nurse's buckle or repousse. It removes all the lowlights and character, makes it...
Silver dip ruind older stuff. It dulls jewellery very badly.
That's a thought, might well be.
English, transferware indeed. I'd think a bit earlier, that green can be 1860s/70s.
That seems very expensive to me, but I'm going on UK prices. I do like that Dale Tiffany vase next to it. I know they're new, but the colours are...
I tend to think of that shape and decor as being Czech, between the wars.
That's fish cartilage, that is.
Can you show the base of the teaset please? And the teapot? The little oil lamp was sold as a decorative item in the 60s. They're of little...
Arg! That ruins the patina on silver and really damages many stones. It's worse than Tarnex.
A sulphide will look more solid, and not change as you turn the plate. Holograms change.
The case is Gustavian in style.
Not that old, if it is. It might be a sulphide technique.
It isn't a British Windsor form, tho'.
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