davey, these sets were also, quite literally, used as ballast!
Most certainly still being sold, seen them! ;)
It's reconstituted marble. These are common tourist souvenirs.
Beat me to it. Runes, indeed. I'd suspect an SCA type person owned it! Tolkien was a serious philologist and expert on true and proto Norse and...
Modern Japanese I suspect. Not art per se.
I've also got a funny feeling I saw similar in San Diego.
They're humpbacks, so I'd be looking West Coast/Pacific North West. I'd also keep that. I love humpbacks.
No alligators or crocs in Spain! Chap's hat is South American too.
I think they're both charming - and I'd have spent a euro, especially with the name. Probably would have given it to my Lebanese neighbour, Mariam.
Zantedeschia leaves. Lovely plates.
The ring is typical of little tourist souvenir pieces sold all over the Middle East and North Africa. Your name is punched in with a chisel type...
Never Indian. Can I just throw in that the engraving looks awfully Chinese.
I'd vote for pewter as well.
South American, rather than Spanish.
Agreed. Eastern European and recent.
Did someone summon me? ;) Two digit is earlier than the 1920s, I'd say, it's back in the seriously manual days. Pre WW1.
Tin glazed faience with sponge decoration.
I have a few of this shape, but unpainted. Or, at least, there's very little paint left one one of them. I've also seen many in the UK. I don't...
I've a necklace that looks like that, never have worked out what it is. Not amber - it doesn't do the UV thing. See? I tend to think those...
Celluloid, I'd say.
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