What a beautiful human...such a loss.
My first exposure to the shape was in a Tavern near San Diego in 1963. Beer was served in it; it held a quart, an' was called a Schooner, an' sold...
Years ago, when I acquired this knife, I was told a name for the MOP-looking plastic that makes up this grip. It may have been a Kinfolks...
There's 15 feet of it, all in one chunk. It weighs about a gram per inch, which is ~2 1/2 links. The short piece is 2 1/2" long. I had hoped for...
~9 1/2" long, ~1 1/4" wide, ~5/8" thick; weight is ~12 1/4 oz. The color is best shown in pic#5. I would like to hear about what the stone may be,...
Carbon steel blades & (probably) plated handles, one with a single mark within a wee dimple: a right-facing head with either a Mohawk haircut or a...
They're all brass except for the steel (floppy) staple on the back. ~1 1/8" diameter, no makers mark. What can y'all make of the characters around...
Google image search wants it to be a pistol cleaning rod, which I doubt. A word search for sack needle yields nothing that looks like it. I wanna...
Resin replicas, to be sure...but so evocative! The pawn is marked BMPL; the other 2 are marked BM. I gotta find out who's marks those are. The...
I haven't played chess in 60 years, an' though it was a youthful fascination I was never remotely competent. But these two, an' another pair I'll...
Marked "Julius King Optical Co. Pat Nov 28, 1882 & Mar 12, 1889" 5 3/4" fully collapsed, ~9 1/2" extended; the extension tube is ~5/16" diameter,...
It had been inna ground long enough to have the appearance of a longish lump of iron-oxide, with just a hint of its present configuration...
8 3/4" long, 15/16" large-end opening, 5 3/4 ounces, including the lead filling in the pointy end. In my fantasy I picture stuffing this into the...
~9 3/8" long, ~6 1/4" tip to hinge rivet, ~1/2" wide at tip, tapering to ~5/16" at grip, ~11 ounces. Both limbs are identically cast, an' very...
Google image is no help; eBay doesn't show anything close. I'm guessing last 3rd 19th C...bwdik? It's seen some weather, judging from the...
~4" long, 1 3/4" wide. Sure wish I had the rest of this, the latch-works...sigh. It looks like Eastlake to me...but I'm gonna list it, an' wanna...
Charming ain't a word commonly associated with cold iron, but there are several aspects of this I find so. ~7" long, 1/4" thick, 6.35 ounces. It's...
This was one of uncle Leonard's treasures. I posted here because I find it jewel-like in many respects...Mods can move it, if inappropriate. 3...
I have heard these called sister hooks. But I'm finding that isn't their correct nomenclature. The long pin is apparently to pass through a clevis...
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