It's not a massive thing here, but that one is pretty enough to sell for more than the peanuts I paid for it. ;)
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I've put the word out about the black jasper with some car boot frequenting friends. You never know!
Rhino horn isn't horn. It's compressed hair, so yes, it's solid. That's water buffalo. Seen lots of it, especially Indian. Just as well - if it...
It's more a cabinet of curiousities than a chest of drawers. Might be as early as 18th C, but better photos are indeed required.
Back in the 60s, Globemasters and other MAC transport planes leaving Rota and other bases had cargo holds packed with giant wooden Spanish...
The base worries me. It ought to be firepolished.
Agreed.
I'd have grabbed them for that. They'd still sell on pretty.
Dressing table. Or at least, that's what it's been made into if the mirror isn't original, close ups of the fitting are needed. But I think the...
Fireplace insert, probably British, and no real guts missing. This covered the opening to a fireplace - coal basket inside, that's all, and flue...
I don't think this is Indian, I think it's artisan work, possibly South Western. I've never ever seen an Indian artefact with that kind of...
You'd be surprised. I've seen early Georgian sticks that looked perfect.
Hm. Japanese, late 19th by the look of it. Meiji period. I'm hopeless on reading script, someone will, though. Buy a Sunshine cloth and polish it...
Not that rare in the UK - my mother had similar things, which we bought on holiday in Spain in the early 60s. I suspect your idea that it was a...
Pretty indeed. LAte 19th or early 20th. Those are clematis: the fluffy one is tangutica.
Generic Spanish souvenir, from the 60s when Spain emerged from the long Hunger and the Civil War. Before then - 30s to 50s - there was neither the...
Not mosaic. Stained glass.
Nah. A British cultural icon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingu
Nope. ;)
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