It is indeed usually deal on earlier stuff, and that's often Scots Pine. I thought deal from the outset on this, it looks like my own old...
Agreed on post war. If this were an ordinary mug, value would be low, but the Liberty name adds to it.
Period to me, too. I could see it as English.
I'm with newish Asian too.
Those coasters have got Windsor Castle on them.....!
I've seen them on pedestal ones, but I can't remember how it worked!
Don't do it! The muck keeps the tarnish away.
Mine too. I wonder if it had one of those sort of fabric sack thingies below.
Agreed, it's a chap's chest of drawers.
If you think about it, they're fired REALLY high. It's not heat that hurts a thing, it's thermal shock. And this stuff was made in an age when...
I can't help on when you guys decided on formats, but I've British paper documents up to two centuries old with the month day year usage.
Try a Magic Eraser. That works really well on bisque. Mind you, I immerse the stuff all the time.
Looks more like PR than RR. I can't think of a maker, off hand. Might possibly be a retailer though.
The Sklo Union factories made some lovely, and interesting stuff. Still do.
I've similar beads but no clue who made them.
Hers wasn't Minstrel, but I can't recall the range name off hand.
The style is a parka.
Bit late, but yes, pill box and nothing to do with the desk set. I'm saying pill box, but usually these were for little breath freshener violet...
Quaich, indeed. It's most likely to be pewter.
Ah, samples. I know someone who bought an entire suitcase of Doulton Lambeth plumbing samples for a tenner at a car boot sale. <whimper>
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