Photos, if you've time, please?
It wouldn't be called a commode here. Where's the po' go?
Never walnut. ;) Far too pale. That's beech in the San Fran link.
It's my pre-Internet education botany bump again, brad. And having seen the trees growing. ;)
Definitely bamboo. Those joints are unmistakeable. I think the bird may be a Eurasian Wigeon. Although it isn't quite right for one.
We enjoy it. ;) Don't be embarrassed, I'd totally forgotten about King Billy, which is mortifying. That shape has been around a LONG time. If...
The doll may well go with it. I've seen a lot of these little pseudo Limoges trinkets with small nonsenses inside. Yes, modern Chinese.
Um. No. Fruska Gora beech forests for one thing. Mixed oak and beech. Yigoslavian beech being a specific variant of European Beech:...
I seriously could not sell that.
Chico's tribe. Nice. ;)
I reckon that's Italian. Paging @Walter Del Pellegrino to the yellow phone, please.
Which reminds me. I've a brass pandan box somewhere, but the house has eaten it.
That's often my philosophy. ;)
Blimey, she's right, I'd missed that. The wrong Billy on my part: this is the Orange one, the Dutchman. That would also make more sense on the IR...
Isn't it cute? It was filthy,which is why I think it was a mere sixty cents. ;) Iron inlaid silver.
The inlay is very much in the Regency style. I'm with Brad: having seen that construction, it's newish. Also, on an older piece the drawer...
I do indeed think the panel may have been bought on its own as a souvenir, just as cameos were. Hard to date that though, but 18thC would be about...
Agreed - and the clasp is probably US made, given it uses the K word.
It's a flavouring. People carried it with them, just as they did nutmeg here[ATTACH] [ATTACH] . This is the betel box I found last weekend:...
It's referred to as sprigged when it's the type that Dudson et al did, as it's glazed for one thing. The impressed ones always look so modern to...
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