Majolica and with that pink, I think it's English.
Gold can tarnish - or at least, the metal it's mixed with in lower carat stuff can.
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Known here as a glass pop. A bit more: internal shear marks are caused by poor annealing. I've seen paperweights shatter, literally from it.
Majolica means the body and glaze, not the decoration. Tin glazed earthenware. I do agree that this vase is not majolica.
John Betjeman is rather fine on the subject of food etiquette: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/john_betjeman/poems/785
Ah, but it would only be dessert in the old sense of a cheese course. Pudding - which is strictly what a sweet tasting last course is - is eaten...
That's a fruit set, rather than salad. The handles may be a good lookalike for MOP: mostly, these are a type of celluloid.
You're very welcome. I love this stuff. London is literally built on Doulton.
OK. The d in a circle is Elizabeth Dayton, listed in 1882 as a junior assistant. The other mark is Alice Eckenstein, also listed in 1882 but as a...
Yes silicon ware, yes to the date. I'm not sure on it being Pheby, you don't have enough squares round the letter which also looks the wrong...
Screams 1960s to me.
Artificial wear. As others have said, apothecary bottles need to have visibility of the contents.
I'd use those balls in the garden: dot them in amongst plants.
Try Edith Cavell.
I bought an identical figure in Rome, back in about 1972. They're quite typical there, nimbus halo and all.
This style is still being made in India, but these days it's usually rather crude printed and pressed metal.
I'm almost certain they're Czech/Bohemian. Probably Welz.
Oh, I feel your pain. ;)
You also have the fact that many Catalans, especially, went to Cuba (including Senor Bacardi!) and on returning to their homeland, spent serious...
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