Very nice thistle with an amethyst. I don't think that's a conventional hinge, I suspect it's a pin fastening clasp. The links certainly look...
The other thing about cans is straight sides. Don't think that one is British, fwiw.
I've stared at it a fair bit. I'm now verring back to Italian, but I honestly can't decide.
Retailer perhaps?
I've a bit of a thing for Damascene and Toledo Ware.
It's pretty new - or at least 90s onwards. I'd think Indonesian made or maybe Indian. I suspect a shopping channel. It's gold washed, vermeil....
Mary Gregory is a term used for white enamel on glass - it's a bit of a nonsense, really. ;)
Have you had a UV light on it?
It needs looking at properly by someone over here who knows English furniture. It's had a hard life, the patina has been shot to hell by poor...
They weren't used much after the early 20th C.
is that open back? I'd have said 60s , it's like one I've got.
I've got that somewhere in the Hoard. No clue who made it.
I'd say pate sur pate rather than enamelled glass. Don't get me started on the misuse of Mary Gregory. Agree with aj on the brooch. I've seen...
There's people on there who've seen so many marks that they literally know them almost instantly. Very useful.
Agreed, that's a better view of it, no tail on the O. Birmingham, London and Sheffield all use the same date letter cycle now.
Those wooden boxes are generally pre WW2, as is that interior style with the retainers. Could be dessert, could also be a first course set. If the...
It's 1988, the letters are the same regardless of assay office. Badly punched London mark.
Try the Facebook British Studio Pottery page, they're red hot on odd and unreadable marks.
Tooveys are excellent, they really know old jewellery. I've sold bits through them in the past.
It is, 1950s or early 60s.
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