I cannot tell you anything useful but I collect silver cups and saucers and would like to buy it if you sell it.
Probably German C 100-1910. 30 hour pin pallet timepiece movement.
Look on the breech for the proof-marks. They are small stamped marks that identify where it was proof fired, and if they are Liege marks it would...
19th. C double barrel hammer shotgun by a very good maker.
As for coming into force, it would have to go through the whole parliamentary process first This could take years or never happen. The...
I think the dating is by detecting minute traces of an elemntal isotope that did not exist in nature before the use of atomic bombs. Some...
I'm not intending to sell anything, so the details are not all that important to me. I have to assue that rare and important is stuff that selles...
I a hoping to pick up some nice antique pieces at knock down prices if there is a panic to unload.
Garry, if you go back to your post, select edit, and then select full image all, your pictures will coe up full sized.
I can see enough to see it is not an antique. To me, relatively modern means second half of the 20th C., could be 1970s. The period for antique...
It looks more like a Catholic than a Protestant bench to me. This is not just a facile comment; like the churches, styles from predominantly...
A much earlier comment about the warch being worth the gold scrap value is accurate as far as the auction market goes, the maker is decent but not...
It appears to be a relatively modern French carriage timepiece (technically, not a clock since it does not strike), a little more decorative than...
Not a coin. Possibly a 19th C Indian temple token.
Clobbered = trade slang for later decorated, see the thread about a silver tea set. Same OP
My grandmother had one of these that I remember from childhood. Here is one in my back garden that is in the pre-processed stage, but practising...
The spiral fluting of the sides was a popular design theme in the late 19th C. I'd say it is from about 1880-1890 give or take a decade.
Sorry, I thought I had replied but forgot to hit'Post'. @Ownedbybear may have something to say about this set.
My apologies, most of it is 1836, only the first mark is 1820. The court jester is the crowned leopard head. The later pieces have the head...
The only things I have bought recently are from other board members as I don't get out so much any more. Not a large number of items but I was...
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