I'd expect to see a cupboard base,not all drawers.
I buy clips like made. Screws, not so much, awkward to wear.
Not seen English washstands with a marble back, generally a mirror.
Yup, my thought too, especially given how shiny the backs are. I'd have grabbed those.
That filigre style is still made, so it may be a happy marriage.
Baa lamb, that is.
You'd have loved the house a friend lived in. It had a chalk face at the back, full of fossils.
Oh, you got a bargain, i'd say.
That they are!
I think pretty recent. These are being widely made as nice repros of older styles.
Might be neodymium, I swear I posted that before, or am I dreaming. Might also be a synthetic tanzanite.
Tap them, see if any dust comes out. If it doesn't, worms are long dead. I'd think late 19th ish, the range davey said. OP is in the UK, from...
If it's an ocean stone, them's is worms. ;) You can pick these stones up on beaches, here, interesting things they are, too.
Himself made crystal set radios - as did I when I did Physics a long time ago.
Backs look newer than the 50s, may be fairly recent. Bells? Hooped skirts? Crinolines? Pine trees?
I've got older chain threaded necklaces with those cubes, I'll have to go fish 'em out. God knows what I'll do with the rhinestone ones. They...
Agreed: and age affects it, too, as does enviroment. Unusual setting. Looks very good now.
A Doulton Pushkin and a suitcase of Doulton miniature sanitary ware would work for me. Throw in a poesy ring, please.
Not Blue John. That's a far more opaque thing.
Nachtmann mark has a crown on it, tho'. [IMG]
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