Yes, silver plate.
The ones I own are oriented that way - upside down, so you can flip them up to read.
A V Roe. Who set up a model village in Middlesex, which is still lovely - Arts and Crafts houses. A friend owns one....
It was quite common: a little bow brooch typically.
I suspect the watch originally hung from a brooch.
Agreed.
It's glass sickness. You could try limescale remover gel.
I really do need to start exporting. ;)
Most welcome. I rather drooled over the stuff.
Great minds and all that.
I think you may have overpaid a tad if you want to resell, but not as keepers. They look mid 19th, are those castors brass? Leather looks...
It's got a bell. Musical thing?
Yup. I'd see them at about £100 to £150 retail here.
Wrong shape for tea, honey.
19th C, probably English, can we see the base please?
I do agree on the locket being earlier, fwiw.
Those white glass beads - I have some - are called something like tooth beads, I think. Czech, indeed.
Calf rather than ram. And it does look very like the Minoan stuff I saw in museums on Crete.
Isuspect this one is Italian, given that those bucolic transfer scenes are Italian. Yes, made in Bohemia as well.
You're very welcome.
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