Her legacy to me is that I'm unable to by clothes without going all over them to make sure they're well made. As a teenager, when I bought...
I'm with Bohemian 1920s, brass and glass. Buy a Sunshine cloth and use it gently on this. You could probably do a quick vinegar dunk as long as...
That's more of a seal than glue. There's stuff that fixes chips, cures with light. Let me see if I can find it.
Yup!
My grandmother was a couture seamstress. This meant, despite the fact we were NOT a well off family, I had the best dressed dolls in London and...
I've had some of those trays, sans the label. Assumed they were 60s ish, but I'd not made the Cyprus connection. Makes sense, given how many Brits...
Afer WW2, making decorative goods for the home market wasn't allowed. The way glass makers found to get round that was to emboss the word celery...
Google on Crittall windows. Wonderful things. You are obliged, here, to match as closely as possible to original on buildings of this age and...
Do you know why so many vases are marked celery here? There's a fascincating reason.
I'd say lucite/perspex. Be careful what glue you use, some can dissolve it. Car windscreen stuff is good.
I'm thinking of hiring a large van. ;)
I really like them, yours too. I think at least one of mine is Caughley, but they were also made in London. Bow, for example.
The vent cover is wonderful. If you can have a close look, it might be a Coalbrookdale piece and marked. I suspect they added the big fireplace:...
I'm drooling. As much as anything, those garden things! You've some serious values in those. I supect they came from one of the great Irish...
It would have been medium to dark brown, a mahogany wannabee. I'd get a darker wax on it and look for some decent salvage handles. You could have...
I've some much older ones: late 18th C. Those were usually pickled walnuts or other accompaniements. Not eggs, then, but things that went with...
Absoutely old. Late 19th or early 20th.
It would be a reasonably native or locally grown wood, which cypress wasn't. Pine with deal shelving is likely. If it was ever painted white, it...
I see colour variation, not glued, but a close up of that area will help.
I do indeed!
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