The shape, by the way, is an upside down cinerary urn missing a lid.
Plumstead. Hm. I'll go fish out my London glassmakers history book, in case there's anyone obvious. It was rural there till the 19th C, but I...
Andy M is on the Brit FB pages, as are Nigel Benson and some other clever peeps. Looks like handblown with a broken pontil to me. Monart - if...
You'll do better with the MoL or even the V&A. The MoL has an amazing archive of British and London glass, both items and references. A few years...
Most certainly caviar, I've seen them that large. As a showy off thing, it was served in large crystal bowls. Looks English to me.
Cross posted with Bronwen. A single or two dots is indeed meaningless sans the first digit. I'm seeing an Arabic 9. And dots are not used on their...
I agree. The dot in the left hand cartouche is a zero. It's 90 parts in a hundred silver. And that has been used for as long as Egypt has marked...
Hand painted and I'd agree on Turkish. Here, it would perhaps be bargeware. ;)
DO NOT SCRUB. Are you anywhere near the Museum of London?
Bother. I know that one, it's left my head.
Try this: http://hallmarkwiki.com/?country=egypt
Bit glowy for agate, low grade moonstone they might well be. I do have a thing for beads - one of my friends repurposes, but she isn't getting them!
The setting on that brass necklace and the shape of the frames is classic Czech between the wars. I've lots of them. I think it's of that period -...
1970s ish. Think Abigail's Party. H Samuel and others did these - and rather poor tantaluses/tantali too.
I'd agree on Brownhills. It's called a cheese dome becuase you put a honking great big cheese truckle under it and it sits on an elegant...
I think it's different sectors, if that makes sense. I collect glass, rather than beads and in that "world" the technique isn't sommerso. It may...
Oh fine, that'll make it much easier. If you can't get Rustins, there's other makes of it.
1930s dining chairs, dead easy to redo. Cut a piece of ply to shape, cover it with wadding and staple suitable fabric over it. Wipe them over with...
Country pieces, made to be sold inexpensively and used in cottages and working class homes.
Pat, your "sommerso" beads, I'd call inclusions - as in, aventurine or foil inclusions. Sommerso, strictly, is that kind of cased effect in...
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