Effectively, buying or importing Nitric acid is illegal in the UK Nitric acid is the usual silver testing acid....
The Queen reigns, she does not rule.
You could use some source like Kelly's street directory to see if there was a silversmith in Weymouth, Dorset, in the 1920s. It cannot be said...
Tablewear? Are homophones a protected category? Does no one proof-read? My ruler is rapping notional knuckles.
Not at all. Some companies have a consistent track record, others are simply resurrected old names, or have had so many changes in course over the...
Now you point it out I can see that. What an odd design.
Even if American, I'd expect a sterling bowl to be marked as such, it is not old enough to date back to the coin silver period. The surface may...
It is probably rare inasmuch as you might check a thousand similar salt spoons and not find another one by the same maker, but that is rare...
There is a good reason why it does not matter if it is is BF or OMG. and that is that it is so poorly stamped. Any maker good enough for the...
Better focussed pictures would help. I do not understand reference to the top being 2 feet shorter than the base. In the single picture it appears...
It is a cigar piercer. For the other end of the cigar you would use a cigar cutter.
This probably dates from the 1970s and is typical of hundreds of watches with now unknown makers because they were simply routine ESA Swiss...
I'd call it a pedestal clock. In effect it is a mantel clock on a plinth. The long case of a long case clock is to accomodate the pendulum and is...
The shape of the bowl defines the use of the spoon, elongated shape is for mustard, roundish is for salt.
It appears to be a reproduction. The line around the rim is where two cast halves join.
Kali, the destroyer of evil. It seems to me that there would be considerable technical difficulty casting something like that with the undercuts...
Miner's compass?
I think you are right about fairly modern and India but it would nice with my others at the right price. :-)
I have no idea how it goes in the USA but I did almost all of my bidding, when I was buying regularly, by viewing the sale and leaving a list of...
It shows a clearly sectioned ammonite. The other fossils are not so clear. Possibly Devonian or Carboniferous era although I think you have...
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