I'll bet Mark Hill does at some time, he loves odd stuff to write about.
Yup. I use Goddards on silver, as one might guess. ;) The Sunshine Cloths seem to work much better on nasty gunk, and also are very effective on...
Decent little Edwardian oak glass fronted cabinet, I'd think. Early 20th C.
Ecover is good stuff.
af, you might buy a Sunshine Cloth, available from sellers on Fleabay US. I've found them pretty effective with this sort of degradation.
Indeed: Dine or Dineh. The People. (Shades of Zenna Henderson, that.)
Interesting! This is what we get to buy: https://www.persil.co.uk/laundry-products/silk-wool/ or - there's also a Stergene one, an Ecover one,...
Ah, but there's a far better way to get honey from a jar. A nice wooden honey dipper/drizzler - perfect for Golden Syrup (nectar of the gods) too.
And me: that embossed decoration is very Bavarian, too.
My excellent dry cleaner, who specialises in Indian silks and embroideries, recommends Fairy Liquid for hand washing silk. I use a special liquid...
silver, that poem was in my head, too!
I don't think the decoration is at all recent. Nice old cupboards.
Hmph. Dem's is delphiniums, dose is.
Oh, hear hear. Well said af.
Screams French to me.
Yup! :)
Is that a Doulton Lambeth jar in beween them?
Or maybe dragon's breath? The swirls are reconstituted stones I think. Silver and gold brooch is interesting.
The French and Belgian ones are usually clear. I think that's Italian.
That's an armorial on the horse cruet - so some minor noble British family. Even with the missing bits it's exceedingly collectable. Not...
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