In and will very happily pay shipping too.
You'd not sand or grind a paperweight base like that - they look like shear marks. Far too uneven as well.
Definitely older. Might even be pre war. Whatever you do, no polishes. Get a Sunshine cloth and gently clean them. That shadow set ring is proper...
Cheap. Grab.
Wrong shine for jet, and it would not have those striations.
Most welcome. Nice find.
Yours is the correct hem stitch in my view.
The British ones I've seen have all been real silk. You'd not bother doing a careful hand rolled edge on something made to carry concealed to war....
I'd think 1930s Czech.
Obsidian possibly on the necklace. Yes, it just hangs. Worth a quid just for the beads. I don't think that's a weight, I think it's a large...
S could be a shape number or pattern, or some kind of reference mark. Photo please? Two hundred dollars is a tad ambitious.
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It's silver plated, but the second S doesn't mean Sheffield neccessarily.
I'm sticking with 19th C, with the hanging loops added.
The shop was always called S Fox - I can't remember when it closed down. Why not ask the source? https://www.foxumbrellas.com/
With that enamel, I'm inclined to say 1930s - the post war ones weren't quite as fine.
The front looks 1960s, the back looks Victorian. I vote marriage.
I've a couple of old as dirt pieces of painted glass. As @moreotherstuff says, old glass isn't smooth, the rolling techniques to get that weren't...
Most welcome.
Oh, and whilst it may be small, don't be deceived. In the 30s and later, even, chaps had rather foppish brollies at times. Fashionable men about...
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