WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a very important piece!!!!! I'm nearly sure this is satinwood making it so rare and important. Yes it looks...
I've seen it before but it escapes me (too old lol) some sort of mottled figure but there are so many woods and even the way they are cut can...
I have the urge to sand that beading in to match the existing beading lol It looks miles better than it did to start with, great job. It's a bit...
Sorry I've been busy over the last few weeks. I would firstly address the yawning of the box by slightly undoing the screws of the hinges, if this...
I would just leave it as is, it has charm to it.
Lol I've found the video and clip (out of 61 videos) @ 30:30 [MEDIA]
Sorry I had completely missed your above comment and just went to the tagged comment for me. I recently watched someone restoring a RR on youtube...
Lovely box but leather is very hard to restore, the only way of keeping it original would be to get some leather filler for car seats and a darker...
https://www.selency.co.uk/p/Z1KKHAK4/old-perpetual-calendar-handcrafted-manual-wood-and-metal
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I always see photos/links in Google images to Antiquers when searching for items that have already been posted on here. I don't know if that's...
I'm not to sure members on here would bid on your find but many times I've wanted to ask a question on here about an item before the end of a...
https://www.henrynichollsantiques.co.uk/en-GB/decorative/chinese-lacquered-sewing-box/prod_10354
I think it's out of a antique Chinese lacquered work box
I've got one like this, I don't know what mine is either lol
Yeah no wall because I took the pictures tonight, sorry, bad Raver
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I would say they are by the same hand, nice work
The lock is continental, probably French
I don't want to make any assumptions but if you can sand, polish and glue then it's easy.
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