Cooking skewers are iron or copper. Hampton Court has lots of them in the Tudor kitchens. I don't credit that bit about the invention of the...
Which is why the earlier ones are such a pig to do up, too.
I went round a cameo factory in Naples a couple of years back. Nothing very romantic about what happens to excess shell. Fertiliser!
Colour isn't typically Murano, I'd think Czech as well. That's a Chribska shape.
Reads Germany, I reckon.
I've got a couple of these. One bought on Cyprus, doesn't pretend to be anything but a new lookalike. The other was bought in Jordan and is carved...
It's an unguent bottle, or trying to be. That rim and lip aren't right - far too thick and too see through, as well. Looks like a much later copy...
I buy them like mad. I have no ear holes!
Always download drivers. CDs are static: online ones are the latest version and most likely to be compatible.
Base and interior look brand new, especially with that number. Pretty though, so well worth grabbing.
Most welcome. Buying because you like a thing is Good!
First one is spatter glass. It's in the style of Welz, but from the base is modern Asian, especially as it's so thick. Second is a Jack in the...
Doesn't look coral to me, looks carnelian or similar. There's veins in it.
Old microfibre cloth and breathe on it, or a Sunshine.
I'm with Pat and Ruth on this. That's an older spring clasp: I have a great many 20s and 30s necklaces with that same wee lever. They're also, oh,...
Merci beaucoup! Nice reference: I did some digging, and found a few references. The style is right for the date, too.
Ah, fair enough. ;)
Am I seeing a miniature piece, here?
They've certainly got the quality for Coalport. A suspension hole is so you can hang a saucer by its foot in a kiln.
Yup. It's where Galeries Layayette are now, but the Pavilion d'Antin was a fancy shop in the 1920s. [ATTACH]
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