They'd be darned big ones. ;)
So, here's what I pulled out of the skip yesterday. Not cleaned them much, nor will I, other than getting the cement dust off. Heavy as heck,...
Not ivory. I can't decide what it is.
I did wonder. Is it cold? Looks more like glass or a carved stone.
The intaglio may have been done by someone as a hobby.
ivory, perhaps.
I think it came from my neck of the woods. Or at least, the design did and probably the glass. That panelling is absolutely typical of late 19th...
I would SO have to keep that in situ.
the brooch is late 19th C. The indicator of that is the long pin, needed before safety clasps became common and that long tube hinge. Probably...
They are indeed.
I find the odd bit of Roman tile in the garden. Excavated a load of Victorian bottles from my parents' front garden. In London, you start with...
Fresh water are generally irregular on the surface: different mollusc, for a start. Salt water - oyster - are the ones usually perfectly round....
Cheryl, pretty well every bit of 1977 silver here had the head: it was such a Thing at the time. ;)
I missed the lack of opening. Duh. The label on that WP one is used by Empoli factories. It's moulded.
Not 1977. That had the Jubilee head.
Possibly cultured, not sea grown, but the 18ct clasp has meaning. I'd think 1970s ish.
Bottle missing a stopper.
Given they're Thomas Goode, almost certainly English porcelain, Sheffield blades. They'd have commissioned them, and this was at the time when...
I went skip diving today. Photo to follow, but grabbed two really nice Chinese bronze pot stands. And a garden pot. With consent, I hasten to add.
Oh yes to that. ;)
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