Or over wound? Don't be provocative. :-)
Try describing it as a cigarette box or dispenser. A cigarette case is a pocket item.
If it is plastic, by all means pull it apart. If it has any decent age to it please do not pull it apart. It would be ruined either way but if it...
Unless you are a flat earther, (in which case sundials are impossible) you would need to make a gnomon at the correct angle for your latitude. If...
In my opinion that is an antique medal, though whether 18th or 19th C I have no idea. It is a really good looking little dish, though.
It is a cigarette box from about 1960, the musical movement probably by Reurge.(sp?)
Leif, I'd say.
I was thinking some sort of teaching aid for spherical trigonometry.
Looks OK to me.
Fake mercury pendulums can always be spotted by the way the silvering goes all the way to the top. On a real pendulum the glass tubes are about...
Looks like a routine late 19th C 30 hour strike and alarm sharp gothic style clock, possibly American, where the design came from but as it is in...
Clipper ships are still very popular with factory decor producers.
The Grant picture is a man 'o war,or a merchantman disguised as one; the OP has a clipper ship. Montague Dawson was I think, one of the most...
The font may be reminding you of that often used by coin silver makers to strike their names. Could this be a very early use of Sterling and...
when folks still used silver on the dining table. Are you saying that some folks don't use silver? For shame ! :-) Af's festive board groans with...
In my opinion the covers were nothing to do with lightl protection, dark blue or other coloured glass would do that, but for safety when...
This is not a Tobias watch. It was made in Switzerland for the US market and is the fake Rolex of its day. Tobias was a maker of high quality...
They are worth about the scrap value of the silver, probably about 3 ounces.
They look like routine British balloon back late 19th C chairs to me.
A gastro-pub near our hut in Wales sells pigs' ears. That's not a name for something, it is really a pig's ears. In an earwax jus?
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