There's excellent scientific and commercial reasons for using metric and a universal standard.
It was supposedly therapy for wounded servicemen after WW2 - I've a cite for that somewhere, can't find it, but I'll unearth it.
Thank you ladies - I thought these might be up aj and Cheryl's street. ;) The Breton lady has cleaned up nicely. Not marked, but I think she's...
If they give you an answer, could you come back and tell us, please?
That's one reason I think here, not Japan.
It was just muck and glare. I've had a go with a Sunshine, but it needs my ultrasound bath I think.
It could be, staring at it again. Someone thought hallmarking a bark finish was clever!
I'd clean it down with white spirit carefully, to get the crud off. Pick the messy glue off with your fingers. Fiddes, Liberon or Briwax is good...
When I picked this up, I thought it was Turkish or somewhere Eastern. But it has London hallmarks for 1975. I'm now digging for who the maker is:...
I think it's worth doing, if it's a project. If you got a restorer, it would not be tenable.
Saw them and thought of you, as they say. ;) I grabbed a really nice bracelet as well today, I shall show that later.
Isn't it some kind of imperial eagle?
Acually, three, I lied. Paging @Any Jewelry who will like the Breton woman's head and @DragonflyWink on who the Danish one is, please. The last...
There's an excellent FB page for British Studio Pottery, I'd give that a go.
I think they're English. Late 19th into early 20th Japonaiserie. I'm trying to think of factories, Beardmore maybe. Cranes and chrysanthemums.
Grammes for gold and platinum. Imperial ounces for silver. That's how it gets valued here.
@Bronwen - do you know the story of why and how the reverse carved and painted Perspex/lucite jewellery came about? ;)
My one. It was my grandmothers, probably bought just before WW1. It has feetses. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Probably a now missing inner frame of wood. If it wasn't caned, it had a drop in seat of some kind.
I doubt the old biddies had a clue on Bakelite. ;) Bracelet is tennis in style and pretty . Might be CZ.
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