It's the same clip as was used for TA badges and suchlike. It goes in a lapel buttonhole. There was precious little fever for war in the late...
Sliwowitz!
Or that other fierce German spirit, the name of which escapes me. Bother.
Not Pernod: it needs cutting with water. Those are schnapps glasses.
Ah, OK, that's better. I'm scratching my head now. It does look almost as if the underlying silver is showing.
I've had plenty of wooden ones with pegs, which sell for very little. Not seen one like this at all - and yes, it screams steampunk.
I don't think that's guilloche proper. It looks more like lacquer over engine turned, with some of the lacquer missing and deteriorating in other...
Mod. Dep. is basically copyright, and the ART 2593 is the model number.
Try saddle soap on the leather. Gently and sparingly. I've never seen a thing that shape!
Coffee rather than tea. Lovely colour.
Oh, I totally agree with it as a bead term. I love them: far too many infest this house. ;) I think I'd call that vase cased clear over...
Might have had a broken pediment. I wonder if someone adapted it to become a built in one.
Maas works as well as Simichrome does: easier to get it here, too.
If you like that one, google on Ditchfield weights and drool....!
Ah, gotcha. ;) We do use the term sea anchor when being pedantic, so I suspect that's why the ground thing. As opposed to being grounded.
Maas is very good. It also detects bakelite. On jewellery I only use Sunshine cloths though.
Ah, do you guys not use that term? It's used for any fixing that's anchored in the ground here. For example, I've friends with them in front of...
I'm slightly disagreeing with Pat. ;) Sommerso is also used for vases and so forth which have multi coloured even layers - concentric, if that...
Oh foo. I've had one of those. Let me see if I can resurrect the name from what remains of my brain.
I think kasper is living in an episode of American Pickers. ;) Wardrobe looks early 20th to me.
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