This might help http://www.fullchisel.com/blog/?p=1157 It recommends linseed oil. My neighbor put an old wagon by the front of our shared driveway...
Amazing that you made that connection.
There is an online tool ( http://retroreveal.org ) that stamp collectors use to bring out details of faint postmarks and similar things. You...
I appreciate the answers. Thank you! It wouldn't have occurred to me, but when you all mentioned calling cards, that seemed to instantly make a...
That was my first thought as well. I have several like that in my tool cabinet in the garage.
Yes, that is the mark.
I have a lone, monogrammed plate passed down in my wife's family from a distant aunt (it bears her monogram). I'm pretty sure it was not part of a...
Yes. My grandmother is the baby in the photo postcards. Her dad worked in the railroad shops during construction, then stayed on when the canal...
My family's photo postcards from the Panama Canal Zone during its construction, Christmas 1909 and New Year's 1910. [ATTACH]
These were postmarked 1946. [ATTACH]
One of 5 postcards of Riga most from the first decade of 1900. Saved by my grandfather's parents, who fled Latvia to the USA after the failed...
Your inclusion of the species name was very useful, and helped me find something in a research paper: in 1966, Vernon Brock and Ted Chamberlain of...
Could it be Hawaiian? My dad was a shareholder in the Maui Divers company in the 1960's/70's. But he also picked up seahorse things when he found...
With the eye, the rings aren't really noticeable. I only noticed them when I made these images for this post. Are those growth rings, and is that...
After looking closer, it does say 14k on the post on the back. Here is a close up. [ATTACH]
The recent thread "Coral or not?" was interesting, and at the end a ring was posted with Mediterranean Red coral. It made me think of something my...
It wouldn't really matter if the top were a sharp angle, because the weight would be carried by the pads on the inside of the saddle lower down....
Saddle rack seems reasonable. Haven't seen the rotating thing before. Maybe it's for working on the saddle. I've seen them with sharp angles, so...
From the pictures I've looked at, Antigua and Barbuda police seem closest, but the emblem does have some differences, but that may be the...
The emblem on the hat is topped with a crown. I agree with Debora that it may be a Caribbean island tied to the UK.
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