Hammerite - do you guys get it over there? - is excellent because you can paint over rust and corrosion and it inhibits both. You get both smooth...
I love it when you get "faulty" old transferware like that. Shows it was a real person doing it.
Crowleys! LOvely to see you back. ;)
Wildly overpriced, but nice.
If I were keeping that, I'd have a go with wire wool and see how it looked. If it were still manky, I'd use Hammerite.
Also sold in Spain as souvenirs.
The worse one I ever saw, by the way, was a honking great big Caithness magnum weight. The dealer showed me it: six months after he bought it, a...
The paperweight issue is down to the sheer mass of the thing, and the fact it takes a long time for something that dense to cool slowly, which...
I think probably Egyptian. The bread ovens I saw out there, and they go back millenia.
Even professional ones can shear. I've had a couple of decent ones, that somehow weren't annealed well, which developed internal faults.
Book, it was over in the back room, I'll bump it. ;)
They're little tourist replicas of tomb goods.
It's a sugar shovel -the handle is too long for a caddy spoon. Silver plate, British, worn very badly and when I find my brain I'll recall who...
Thanks - I think that's period, rather than revival. And I agree, it may well say GF.
What's the hinge like please?
I think it's a shame it's been refinished, but then, I'm a purist. ;) If it was once black, that would be an ebonised finish. I'd suspect early...
The UK is about the only nation that has seriously comprehensive and standard hallmarks done by assay offices. And they're the oldest. There's...
I know what you mean. It's the sheer history of things!
Yup, 1836.
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