Kevin, if they want to wear the brooches as pendants, you can buy little adaptors on Ebay to safely do that. You put the pin through a little tube...
A wireless, please, not a radio. ;) And it's long wave, probably for a home built crystal set. It didn't start out as that, it looks like a music...
London, they'd be a hundred euro equivalent easily.
Crackle glass. Clean it out with denture tablets, that'll sterilise it well enough. I think it's between the wars.
I'd not call it blush ivory: that has a much more creamy verging on peach colouring to it.
That one looks more Bohemian than Venetian. Get some shots against a plain background indeed - and if you use a Sunshine cloth on the silver...
I've seen them sold as coasters.
Could be Bohemian, could be English, but I suspect Harrach. Late 19th, and charming.
It's fine, it's Whitefriars, and yes, the shape is a tankard but purely decorative. They came in graduated sizes, so you could have a set of, from...
Nah. Far too small for veggies back then.
Leave it be. The bottle was probably made in Empoli and it looks 50s or 60s.
Never mustard. That has to be made fresh every time.
The cone or loaf usually got bashed up a bit by t'maid before going in the bowl.
If it went over a tenner, that's too much.
Bindi box.
af is, as ever, spot on. For heaven's sake, do NOT paint the thing. Post some photos.
I've seen sugars here with cut out lids, both pottery and silver/plate.
It's very recent giftware, but pretty.
I'd put money on Venetian. Those gilded transfers of bucolic shepherdesses are typical. Probably not that old, 1950s or later.
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