I like that theory. ;) Ciggies were small even after WW2, weren't they. Or maybe for cheroots?
What on earth makes the seller state so firmly that it's English? Art Nouveau it ain't, either, in style. And the elastic is early 20th C at most,...
If it's glass, it might well have tiny bubbles under a loupe. Not opal, I agree.
I still think older Chinese, but let me search out some images.
Oh, believe me, I'm just as fascinated, it's all social history. ;) And yours is still a Very Old Thing. Proper antique.
Or Montgomery Ward?
It's an M and a W. Marshall Ward?
PS: This is the little 17th C one I grabbed a while back, and later found a saucer for. About the same price as the blue and white! [ATTACH]...
It's a facsimile, but I suspect you know that. ;) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1270627...
Not just Tyrolean, also Bavarian hats. I've got one somewhere that was my Pa's, had a hog brush in it.
Looks moonstone to me. Those cabs aren't expensive.
I've had several of these. As far as I can find out, late Victorian and sold with something in them. Not Chinese, but in the style of.
Not agave. Ferns. ;)
Stamps. Pretty. Want it. Bet it's older Chinese, fid.
If I saw that here, I'd think it late 18th or very early 19th C from the engraving, the pattern and the look of the glass.
Aha! Many thanks Don - my plates have no backstamp either, and I suspect are early to mid 19thC, so that makes sense. They're really well done,...
I ought to recognise this, really I should. Comes under the Oriental heading: that's a mosque. Anyone brighter than me today recognise it? [ATTACH]
Ah, see we call them sterilisers even if they don't boil! ;)
I don't think it's a water cooler, remembering my chemistry. Sublimate refers to sublimated phenol, I think, a very strong disinfectant. I...
I love that little knife box. The motif is classically Regency. Nice collection of bits, that.
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