We have a part time retreat near Talgarth, for a couple of decades regulars at the Hay Festival, and I must have bought a thousand books in Hay...
Looking at it again it is obviously the Edwardian equivalent of a customised coffee mug. The surrond is stock design (nothing at all to do with US...
Bog standard watch chain fob. To start another hare, Macmillan is a Scottish clan name. Maybe it belonged to a Scots fireman? Or a staff member of...
It is a modern silver and what looks like amber ring made by some blokes in a shed somewhere. Or some other blokes.
To me it looks like mid 20th C school or other institutional furniture.
Furniture makers would buy in locks. Lock makers stamped their products, it is unlikely to have any connection to the furniture maker.
Could you go back and re-do the pictures, they are overexposed which has washed out most contrast and also a bit out of focus. If it is in a shop...
Possibly part of a chess set in the Mughal style. I cannot see them well enough to comment on the material. It is referable to select 'full size'...
It is supposed to be a tourbillion. This means the escapement slowly rotates. The visible escapement should rotate while it is running, maybe once...
Well, so this one was a fake. But take a look at the service process they describe. It has to mean that if what they say is what they do, simply...
My puzzle is solved, the same lamp had been posted on the ebay collectables and art board a few days ago and I had seen it there, not here.
Is this the same lamp we heard about a few days ago? Australian poster? The supposed maker is just there for effect, the E.C. London postal...
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Modern as yesterday. A recent reproduction.
This is what is commonly referred to as an insertion movement. They were made in a few standard sizes and sold to people who wanted to make clocks...
Not simplistic. Just simple. The word simplistic is often misused as a fancier synonym for simple.
It appears to be a cheap desk timepiece from the 1950s. I don't think the maker is of any significance.
I never drink tea or coffee, so any practical use is academic. I just like having nice things around.
I found out yesterday why my cups were so much cheaper than expected. They were listed as tea cups but turned out to be turkish coffee cups. Quite...
Just some blokes in a shed somewhere. Knowing which unknown and forgotten makers produced it is not useful knowledge, and the date of the...
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