We Are All Smaug.
I buy broken old bits simply for the resonance. Roman glass. 18th century pickle dishes. Busted clay pipes. They can keep me fascinated for weeks...
It's lovely. If I saw it here, I'd think early 20th, or maybe late 19th. Post all that Victorian heaviness, as Edwardian stuff got lighter.
That's a very nice thing. West Indian flame mahogany I suspect.
The trebuchet could guard my hoard, you see. Keep off the JOOLS. It isn't a kit, though, it's been scratch built. I suspect for some museum or...
Cased foiled glass. Nice. The casing looks opalescent, too.
And then there's this. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
And what did I do today? MORE BLING. Onyx and coral with a very nice silver clasp, Marvella pearls. Interesting earrings which are old pewter with...
I really really have NO willpower.... A bundle of Stuff yesterday included a giant pair of KJL earrings. I need a dangle. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Brown, I'd call a treacle glaze or Rockingham. Second one is drip. Third.... oh dear glaze. ;)
There you go. ;)
Most welcome. They're rather nice, those.
Definitely 19th C spill vases. The matches went behind, what went in the top of the head were rolled up papers so you could light multiple things...
That's a nice thing. Mid 19th C, I can't make out the diamond properly. Tricky to establish which factory.
FF is normally Fratelli Frantucelli and the second name I can't spell.
Blue ones came in a little chrome stand for condiments. I've some like them. Don't think those are rare.
The egyptian jewellery I've seen in situ was 925.
Three digit numbers have been around a fair while, but yes, not common till the 70s. The earlier three digit ones, post 1904 and 1932 had the two...
Interestingly, one set are Lebanese wife, Ghanain husband. Apparently, a large colony of Ghanains in Beirut. Who knew!
I'd add that mid 19th C low carat rings here are generally either unmarked at all, or simply have 9 ct as a mark. They were below the weight...
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