Who knows when it was made, you can be sure that $15 would have had more purchasing power. 10 silver dollars are now more like 100 paper dollars
XRF testers are fantastic, giving a detailed analysis of all metals in an alloy without damage but are so expensive at the present that they would...
I suspect it is silver plated. This would be more likely than solid silver on grounds of cost. If silver it should be marked even if only to...
If it is stuff you bought at thrift store prices, usually way below metal value, you might as well sell it now and take a profit. It may not be as...
Well, if it is unexposed film it is useless by now anyway so you might as well open it up and unroll a few yards and see what the images are....
Looks like a mid range Ansonia time and strike 8 day mantel or shelf clock from the first decades of the 20th C. Looking for a specific model name...
I hesitate to take issue with OBB but in my opinion it is far too intricate for bargeware and resembles more decorated papier mache objects or...
I agree that it is a 19th C. tobacco tin or box.
Cranberries were unknown in Britain when this was made. Sugar is indeed more likely. Possibly 1920s.
Common from the 1960s on until people got antsy about large knives on planes
Take any pictures in good natural light with that plastic reflective covering removed. There is a special circle in hell reserved for people who...
I am sure it helps that you are the only person in 500 miles that actually collects this stuff.
The dial is brass, as already stated. It is silvered by rubbing it with silver chloride, a simple chemical process used long before silver plating...
If searching for similar try Staunton pattern chess set. If the box is original it may be a better guide to age than the pieces themselves.
It does appear to be a late 18th C. 30 hour long case clock in a decent case. The brass dial may well have been re-silvered as much as 20 or 30...
Surely it is glaze, not paint? However patchy, that is presumably how it came out of the kiln.
I take your point about offical swivel gun procedure, but if I were a captain who found a handy swivel gun, I'd just mount the thing, load it with...
The purpose of a swivel gun was mainly anti-personnel, a handful of musket balls fired at people preparing to board or actually boarding would be...
The style of the logo suggests mid 20th C or later.
In my opinion a single average excavated Roman follis is not really worth listing. The value of common pieces in poor condition means they are...
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