We had pit saws here in the 16th C and I see no reason this might not be that early. It's a pot shelf by the look of it: for wooden or sometimes...
Nice. And early, too, it's mid 19th C or not long after. Possibly Coalport.
Dead easy to grow, find someone with a patch of 'em, pull root up and plant.
I could take you to exactly where that was made. I know people who worked there. Smths has a fascinating history: aviation was huge in London with...
Middle Eastern I suspect with all that cannetile work.
Most welcome. I grow lots of them.
That's Cyrillic, so Russian or Bulgarian then. The remains of the red mark looks USSR.
Not Doulton Burslem, they'd be marked. I agree on mid 19th onwards and English. Yes, blue transfer and hence flow started quite early: late 18th...
Could be made by Beardmore. They did a lot of this stuff. Nice example.
Absoutely not forget me nots, the leaves are totally wrong. it's a native geranium. If you google on Geranium Johnson's Blue, that's pretty...
Isn't that REC rather than EEC? 19th C anyhow.
Looks more like amber to me.
It's one of our castles, let me go have a think about which one.
Never mind that, it has Ganesha. My absolute favourite Hindu deity. I'd buy it for that alone.
I think fairly safe to assume the metal work is contemporaneous. My gut feel is that this is early 20th C, from the handles and leather work, but...
Nope. Definitely not the monarch. We use R - Rex/Regina to indicate the monarch. The CM and crown is the maker. The VR bit is Victoria Regina.
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