Neat strong liquid washing detergent smeared in. If it wasn't metal gilded, I'd shove the thing in the dishwasher and risk it. Glass sickness:...
Not cloisonne, but tube lined. Modern giftware: I have a couple, and like them. There's a company called Old Tupton who make stuff like this: a...
Middle Eastern, possibly Turkish, inlaid with agates. A souvenir, but nice. Also made in India and Tibet, but the ropework looks Middle East.
Solid teak would be a lot heavier than beech, and it's a different colour and grain. As an aside, a lot of the MCM teak stuff is veneer.
It isn't tortoiseshell, but it isn't a paint effect either - look at those edges and the grain repeat. There's an exotic wood that looks like...
Sunshine cloths go on forever. Dirtier they get, the better they clean. I do wonder if these actually match the box.
British copy of Japanese.
Good point on size, measure the thing.
Later. That devore velvet was hot in the 1980s. And it looks like an 80s label to me. Is there a content or care label please?
Broken off hook makes sense. Shoe horn t'other end.
OP is, in my view, an ungrateful brat who has stormed into a room full of people he has never met and then insulted them. We don't get paid for...
I couldn't decide if it was an oryx or an impala, but an impala for speed suits well.
Do you know, I'd quite forgotten that!
A company might make sense. The animals representing the continents they do business in.
Odd mix. Elephant, oryx, mountains and a beaver?
CIIG. You also get C2G. Both mean Caithness Glass Second.
Your blue is Caithness Glass and it's a second, that's how they're marked. Have a trawl through the Scotlands Glass website, you may find the...
It's about some bloke called Claude Etienne from Pierrefont, who has a grievance against someone who has provoked him. Actually, it may be that...
I can read bits of it, but need as af says, sharper and more specific photos.
Well spotted! As to the construction, these were designed to be easily shipped, so they're clever things. I'd keep it.
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