That Facebook group are good - I can't find the blassted book....!
NNot English. I'll fish out Mark Hill's Bitossi book.
I think it's English with that numbering. I'm trying to recall who used that. The gilding looks Coalport.
The Duraglit cleaned off the crud from the shell and the tarnish from the silver inlay. But not to the point where it lost patina, I hate that. I...
I've used Duraglit wadding very carefully on tortoiseshell with silver inlay. As to abrasives, cerium oxide is used for glass. Try that.
Definitely a camel stool. As an aside, some damn fool locally fly tipped a load of Victorian industrial brick path edging locally. You have...
I've never had olive oil go rancid. I use a soft cloth to polish it off afterwards.
The security certificate had expired, but it seems to be sorted. Meissen is German not French. These aren't Meissen. I can't read that mark...
I oce asked the same question of a conservator at the British Museum. They recommended olive oil, which is what I've always used. Only a smidgen,...
Stone chips in resin, I'd say. Rather nice.
Looks Sklo to me. I'd have grabbed that in a heartbeat.
Yup. It also simply doesn't have any great quality to it.
Nice carving. The clasp is any time from the 50s to now.
They were the H Samuel of their day, as it were. ;)
I'm very close to Herts, and my car booting is mostly done there. ;) I suspect we've met.
I bet that brooch had a big lump of art glass in it originally.
Cased white milk with a spatter and aventurine confetti overlay. Not painted, imo, you can see the layers. I'd think modern Italian. Martin, ask...
Chinese.
Stick it in a bucket of brown sauce and leave it for a while. Works fine.
Saw lots of these in Rio. Rather nice souvenir thingies.
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