I think you need to be looking outside the US. There's a VERY famous "The Mayfair Hotel" in London. And that's where I think your china came from.
It's the British term in the trade for what is often called objets de vertue, for example. Small items as opposed to larger ones.
Hm. I think I need to start selling silver smalls to Oz.
Agreed!
Probably. No age, anyhow.
Kristiaan has a nice bit of Vallauris, by the look of it.
Agreed. Nice thing: a bit Beardsley in the image.
The cross is St George's, so English or maybe Knights Templar.
You're most welcome, reassuring to know my brain still works! ;) The unmarked stuff is usually earlier - 60s or 70s.
Oh, well done! I thought he might be Capucin.
My gut feel is that it's later - the base doesn't look right for early 19th. (Portmeirion did a lot of this stuff, much unmarked, too.)
Yer man with the cross is an English mediaeval king. Dunno who.
Brass, and British so probably made in Birmingham.
OK, I think it's Menton. Have a look at some images: there's a massive church above the town with cloisters.
Enlargement, I'd say, there's not enough for a panorama. That may not be a monastery he's in: there's covered roads and pathways on the cliffs....
It's certainly Cote D'Azur.
Definitely a blackbird. That's a nice thing, looks rather good to me.
Now, I'd keep that. It's super. And I'd leave it rusted, too.
OldGuy also speaks some Catalan, I see. ;)
Glazed pottery rather than stone. Quite nice beads.
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