Mansons' is a Brown Betty.
Do you mean the Strand Palace hotel? London is built on tiles from Simpsons and Doulton. Which is very pleasing.
Scottish, it ain't. The style looks Dutch to me with all that fanciness. I'm with Dutch made and French parrot head import mark. It's not true...
One clue to older lead crystal - it looks greyish rather than singing clear. Other than that, what others have said.
Spot on right and real. Probably from a fireplace - and yes, no touching them and I agree with Davey on the value.
I asked this of the British Museum a few years back. They recommend a smear of olive oil. Not almond.
I'll lay odds these are Bohemian garnets from Gablonz/Jablonec. The construction and shape is absolutely typical of 19th/early 20th C stuff from...
Thanks both! No marks on the tongs at all. Susan, those do look similar in style as well as mark. Given they're on the UK and Irish sites, I'd...
And never Nailsea.
Sorry for in a hurry photos. ;) Really nice heavy EPNS ice bucket with insert and tongs, but I can't find the maker. Looks like a sort of...
Don's is Right. ;)
Possibly a little earlier - 1860s or so. Other than that, I agree.
It wasn't for the poor over here. They had undecorated coarse china at best, metal platters at worst or wood if you were rural. Transferware was...
I saw something like Collet Freres. It isn't Luis, but my French brain has gone for a walk. I think it might be an abbreviation for something.
I'm a divvy in the old antiques sense of the word, not the Liverpudlian.
No one has mentioned skips. ;) And fly tips!
The last word is Freres. Let me go squint again at the siggie. I've not seen Eastern European with Greek Key but I have seen French glass with...
If it's the Donatello, then I think Cheryl is spot on. Clasp is very new, but the rest is older.
Lovely, and really interesting. That arch carving is also very Moorish, for obvious reasons.
1950s. Salvation Army are mad to put that much on it, it's ten quid.
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