Inkwell from a desk set or travelling case.
True: and small objets of vertue are easier to stash than bigger stuff!
Small point from tea addict Brit. None of those are tea strainers. ;)
Yeah. I realise that's retail, but I don't think she had any clue about their worth.
Blimey. http://www.antiquenetsuke.co.uk/ojime
I've got Thesiger's book on the Marsh Arabs somewhere, I'm minded to go read it again.
Deffo not SylvaC
Y'all know me too well.... ;) I'm fascinated by prayer beads with dice, I must say.
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I can smell silver. Very handy trick. Anyhow, I do love a car boot sale and buying a random box of jewellery from some random bloke who gets...
Stag was made to order. (I know, I've got some!) It may well be that your different handles were a customer option. It's really nice stuff.
Proper Damascene indeed, rather than Toledo Ware. 1960s ish. I've a fair bit of it. And that's solved a little mystery. I seem to own a Marsh...
Made in one of the Empoli factories by the look of it.
The work is astonishing, isn't it. I covet them. ;)
Yup, there's one carnelian, forgot that. 19th C do you think?
It's china, for one thing. Can you see anything on that sticker? I suspect Italian: the rose painting and gilding are fairly typical. Post WW2 to...
Not mine, but a friend's, who has no intention of parting with them. Found in her old office (!) and about to be thrown away when she rescued them...
Thanks chaps! It does look like James Wilson as the maker. @Bronwen - yes, the Skinner one is spot on for the ornamentation. I'd wondered if it...
I've had a black urn on my keep eyes peeled list. ;)
No Bonn's Street in Colchester, but there's a Bond Street. Handles look late 19th Japonaiserie/Aesthetic.
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