I do tend to use Latin names, 'cos so many common names have multiple owners! ;)
The bone china one may be Aynsley, Crown or Doulton. Common, but pretty and saleable. Enamel one looks Edwardian. Nice.
Clasp and hinge look 1930s ish. Has the look of a Turkish tughra to me.
Ah ha. Rudbeckia aka echinacea makes sense. Also called coneflower, indeed. I grew some lovely oteospermums last year - light blue petals with...
High Church CofE uses those as well.
Asters, I suspect, or Michaelmas daisies, hm?
Given that pre decimal price label of two shillings and eleven pence - 2/11 - it backs up my thought that it's Stourbridge made. Early 20th C I...
You still see those dolls in Spain sometimes. I'd agree 1960s ish, tourist.
And have only lost about 5 to 10 percent of the artworks.
Agreed. Nybro use clear labels which often vanish.
If it's marked ct or carat, then British. K or Karat or KT, American or some other country which can't spell. ;) 585 and other content numbers can...
Recent, but for fifty cents, a bargain.
Gut feel is late 19th, early 20th, stones set in silver to reflect light better. But more photos are needed, as you might guess. ;)
I'd missed AJs reply, let me go stare again. It does look Irish tho'.
Hm? That seventeen is written in the European style: tailed one and crossed seven. The one in the hundred is also European. I suspect the 17 is a...
I suspect your slides were used by the Air Cadets or Air Training Corps. They're later than the 50s, Gnats are sixties. Geek says coils are...
....and you also get Dutch gables on period houses in London!
It's European: look at that seven.
I think more likely a demi tasse spoon from a larger set. The crest is probably the Kelly family.
I do that too!
Separate names with a comma.
