[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Sorry to correct you but not Tunbridge ware but parquetry ware. That tea caddie is top dollar, I was going to bid on...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I fully understand where you are coming from, when I first started collecting I would buy well made antique English...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Ok so you are in the best country in the world to buy boxes, us Brits travelled the world...
Sorry if you mind me asking but what country are you in?
Ah, now I see, I don't know a generic name for such types of boxes or if they were made only in one place, between 1780-1830 lithography took...
https://www.freshfords.com/antique-furniture/georgian-period-18th-century-spa-sewing-box-with-painted-scenes-of-belgian-spa-towns/
The truth is I don't know, I can't zoom in on the photos but is this the same?...
It's would seem making mistakes is something I do a lot lol Only last night I was messaging a ebay seller saying can I have a refund on a item I...
Nice ebony (might be ebonised), brass inlaid (not boulle) serpentine fall front box, French, late 19th c, rosewood interior. Like all boxes of...
All the work the earlier school did was just stunning, in fact it's the only metalwork I'll collect, over 150 antiques and only 2 made of metal a...
That's why I said fly press weight, it would be a cast iron shell filled with lead.
I do :) Sorry I was just attaching some new info to this piece. It seems there were 2 schools of art Jeypore, 1 opened in June 1867 under the...
https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/memorialsjeypor1hend
https://www.runjeetsingh.com/inventory/147/jeypore_dagger
Fly press weight? This is a British cannon ball table, it give the sizes and weights. https://www.arc.id.au/Cannonballs.html
I don't think it matters who made it, even the marked ones are selling just over the scrap value of the metal. It's nice to know about the item...
Yeah I'm sure they are copies, they are unmarked but they do have weight and gold that the originals don't.
I'm sure it is a apprentice/student piece, it would be marked otherwise. The only bit I'm puzzled with is the gold band on mine, all the other...
And this...
Found this, not the same but close https://www.rubylane.com/item/530098-BT00168/Simplistic-Metales-Casado-Bracelet-Ring-Set
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