I have never seen anything marked LD as an abbreviation. More likely a maker's mark. Typical with that sort of locket is the common 9ct Back and...
Just some blokes in a shed somewhere. Or maybe some other blokes in a different shed.
In my opinion it is bronze. I have removed similar portholes from small ships being scrapped and they were always bronze. You could get away with...
That is definitely not anything but a novelty shape. Night watchmen's clocks vary in design, but they all have the movement (of far better...
It is just a style thing. Cheap clock made to look a bit like a lamp. Someone's idea of what someone else might have thought decorative. Probably...
I think Fidbald had more gravity to it with a trace of Norse god. Or maybe something Wagnerian, Fidbald and Fafnir battle the Valkiries for the...
The asking price on the ebay example is extraordinarily fanciful. These little clocks are well made but there is almost zero demand for them....
If the dirt is where the frame should have protected the picture it is a sign that the dirt is artificial. When the newly made painting has dried,...
The clock is compatible with a 1958 ship. It would not surprise me if it was the one you found. Early ship's clocks had deeper cases to accomodate...
It is a ship's bulkhead clock that may date from the middle of the last century. Purely hypothetically, it may have come from the saloon of a...
Nowadays it might have a new lease of life if you could market it as some kind of sex toy.
This is a fairly common design for small trophy cups or presentional silver. Often found engraved with 'First Prize for Best Chicken, Sutterfield...
It appears to be a Thames sailing barge, as seen by someone with cataracts. Could be 19th C but I think more like 1920-30. THis date is pretty...
The angle of the bowl is a rough guide, early pipes were more angled like yours, over time the angle of the bowl moved toward a right angle.
I'd buy it if the price was right. The legality of it all depends on your local laws, it is probably best to assume you may be buying it to keep,...
Everyone got the War Medal. They got campaign medals based on theatre of service, Africa Star and Italy Star together are common. There was no...
Don't be Scilly.
The dial design copies that of the original 17th C. weight driven clocks with verge escapements where time keeping to the minute was just...
More likely to be a headland seen across a bay. There are no South coast islands that big and lumpy, although it is not positively South coast and...
Scrap plus 30% would be a possible retail value, to actually sell it, be prepared to come down a bit. Shop retail might be scrap plus 50% or even...
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