Somewhere Italian, with the shop front partial name and that fine wrought iron. That stucco colouring is usually Tuscan.
That much in 2001? I'd forgotten - so about 400 quid.
9000 pesetas, the last time I used them in Spain, was about £450. 200 to the pound. When I first went there in the late 50s, my parents were...
The man on the right is wearing a typical Bavarian hat with badger hair brush. Pa had one. The stove is also very Bavarian or at a pinch, Tyrol....
And yes, I need to find a nice pale garnet. That other cross is interesting: smaller, but the same design.
Irish wouldn't have an import mark though, it would have the harp. I'm certainly in the Scandi camp. Oh well, I'll find out one day!
Early 19th Staffordshire made by the look of them.
Hnh. Fish on Christmas Eve was never a Catholic thing here. These days, the eaters of fish on Christmas Eve are local Polish families. Carp. I...
The attire is Bavarian/Tyrolean.
It's certainly recent - as I say, the import mark is 1997. I wore it tonight, so there's every chance it may never leave me. ;)
I'm not sure a loupe will be any better: those were done with macro telephoto on a Lumix! I'll have a go though. Fid, Austrian would make sense,...
Yup, a Caithness second. They used C II G stencilled like that, or a "hand written" C 2 G . Caithness were very fussy, so it's often impossible to...
Veggie tureen, probably had a lid.
I'd agree on Malta. Interesting and unusual.
sis is right. These were sold to support a big half cut bamboo pipe, so that you could run water down it as a water feature. The paint is...
How odd. Whoever did that mark is a Tolkien fan. It's Quenya, which is his Elvish lanuage and font. lambe sule and I think, then the long...
Trust me. ;) Yeah, one of the marks is just a tiny 925. It's also stamped 925 inside the bale.
The alexandrite is also a foiled rhinestone, rather than a proper garnet. Yeah, matching is going to be a pig! I'll have a squint at the mark again.
I don't think it's a lion, but it's seriously tiny. Nice, isn't it!
Are you thinking the one on the left of the two punches or the right? The left one is 925 - I can't make out the very far right one, if that makes...
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