Transparent aluminium, anyone?
Might not be Japanese. Some British studio potters use pseudo marks.
I machine wash silk a fair bit, but I've a Bosch which has a silk cycle.
You thritto away honey.
That was my thought, that clay craft stuff.
Country made pieces are often not as fine as town or city makers. Made for a different market.
You're sure they're glass? Cold and clinky?
Vinegar dissolves dyestuffs, salt water sets them. I did that as experiments in Chemistry aeons ago. I'd not use either. My local Indian dry...
Indian would make sense, we imported a great deal. If it's silver, it's likely to be lower grade than sterling.
Yup, I've got older moonglow, it doesn't do the catseye thing.
PS: Feet look fine. Interior is also typical of the period.
Shouts early 19th - 1820s/30s to me. Probably had much simpler plainer almost knobs - brass - as the pulls. Later on, people replaced stuff with...
They do ofen get called nurses' buckles. Might be Arabic.
I totally agree with Cheryl - aventurine inclusions, nothing like goldstone. A totally different manufacturing technique. And in all my years, I...
Those look like 60s decor ones, not the kind that went on a beast. Not very saleable any more, although the Masonic one might be.
Kilt pins aren't stick pins, you'd annihilate your legs. I wonder if this was a Bicentennial thing.
Great minds! ;)
Looks 1960s to me.
I don't think amethyst, I think Blue John.
Aircraft are post Ww2, sort of generic twin engined passenger planes.
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