I'd use it. So much nicer than plastic and it's not hugely valuable.
The headress looks Greek or Russian Orthodox.
Looks modern Indian to me.
Some of my bits are turned: I think they use or used those foot driven thingummies.
African ebony in my book. I've some old carvings my godfather bought me years back.
The metalwork rather reminds me of some Spanish stuff. Mexican in your neck of the woods perhaps.
Hm. I'm seeing dots, so possibly printed.
It's flow. Either a slop bowl or a sugar bowl: those were large back then.
I still remember my organic chemistry. ;)
Pretty little Edwardian occasional table to me. That's early 20th C.
Bananas actually give off ethylene, which is why you ought never to store them next to other fruit. Ethylene is used to ripen the unripe, so a...
Picture of the base please.
I remember last time's consensus. We all said don't touch it. ;)
More likely to be for milk or syrup?
London made the mistake of allowing far too many good buildings to be lost in the 60s and 70s. Thankfully, it's now gone the other way. The other...
One of the very few Diana or royal items that actually has real value.
Not studio, but a production piece and I think possibly Belgian. I'm inclined to between the wars.
Before, if you're coming from the West on the A40. The shameful thing is that the Firestone Building, which was another stunner, didn't survive.
davey, Google on Hoover Building at Greenford. It narrowly escaped being illegally demolished and was then converted to, of all things, a Tesco....
I had one of those, never did find out who made the thing.
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