Have you cleaned it at all? Polished it? I just don't buy that it's made of silver. Unless it was cleaned after it was found, because silver...
My guess would be that it looked something like this, when it was intact: [ATTACH] ...although I doubt that your piece is silver. Anything...
Does the brass bit slide up and down at all? My guess - and this is only guess without being able to see the entire thing...is that it's a...
That's a hell of a lot of meat! You can use it to carve the roast next Christmas...
I've never fully trusted Asian silvermarks for this reason. Take it to a pawnbroker or jeweler and get them to do an acid test or an XRF test.
It was this lovely silver jar or pot or whatever, cylindrical, with a lid, made in Thailand, the guy told me. Medium-to-large in size. "How...
Oh getting them for the right price is bloody hard. I saw a really nice Thai silver one for sale about a year ago...wanted to buy it...but the...
I was about to say - betel nut box. I've seen a lot of these. They're beautiful.
Wooooooooooooooowwwwww... Beautiful!
Loads. There's dozens of famous fountain pen brands.
@Jeff Drum You have a Montblanc rollerball. They're worth a bit, but not much. Maybe $200 - $500, depending on condition. The model number is 164,...
That's true! I had someone ask me just the other day: "Isn't it bad to polish silver?" NO!! You're MEANT to polish silver! You don't polish...
I loathe buying things which I never use, even if it's only occasionally. It's such a waste of bloody money, otherwise. I'd rather sell it if I...
Fountain pen ink is everywhere. It ranges from crazy-expensive, to dirt-cheap. But even the expensive bottles are value for money, because one...
I can't stand it when people buy stuff and never use it. To me, that's a waste of money. You may as well visit a museum.
Because Montblancs are so expensive, most people treat them like holy relics, to be seen and not heard, and preferably, not seen. As a result,...
Well - I don't know who the hell tried to fix my silver 146 before I bought it - but whoever it was - has no business trying to fix pens! For...
It's stamped with the Montblanc logo, and "18kt"
I've been using fountain pens since childhood, and don't intend to stop now.
When I was still in school, I had a really cheap fountain pen from Italy which I picked up during a European holiday. It looked very similar to...
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