Not to mention Toad in the Hole and Spotted Dick but no Corn Dogs or Grits. I have no idea what some American food is. Hush Puppies, hoagies and...
It is an obvious fact that syrup on pancakes attracts hurricanes. We Briitish sprinkle lemon juice and sugar, and have no hurricanes. Americans...
Welcome. We have great need of a Japanese voice, as questions about Japanese items appear regularly.
Second half of the 20th C. Swiss or Austrian tourist souvenir.
It is not unreasonable to call it a dinosaur foot since the birds are the last survivors of the dinosaur family. And the ostrich is one of the...
I'd guess Scotland
That is a mignon size. It is not English and probably if not certainly pre-WWII. With the size and gorge case, it is quite a desirable little...
I tried ostrich for dinner a couple of weeks ago. Unhappily it had some garlic on it so I was not really able to tell what the ostrich tased like...
Language can make words as precise as they need to be. Describing the item for sale purposes, or talking to another clock person, carriage...
John Betjeman was a bit scathing about fish knives back in the 30s. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/john_betjeman/poems/785 The whole point...
Advertising premium set from the 1930s, I think. Send in a bunch of coupons from the labels on custard powder tins or whatever else they produced...
I can indeed. A local man who is far more active than I am in seeking out stuff runs anything he finds past me before scrapping it. I pay him spot...
Just so. It is large enough for a day's supply.
I live in easy reach of Birmingham and the Jewellery Quarter. I get about 97% of spot, the owner has an XRF gun for checking. There are loads of...
Well restored, but this one I would call a pill box. Snuff box designs were optimised for pinch taking, an oblong design facilitated taking a...
I suspect that that is a tobacco box rather than a snuff box. It is rather large and is clearly not a table snuff.
In the three years since this thread I have managed to get hold of two more tea cups for my collection. 5 looks more like a collection than...
The word is bombe, (should have an accent on the e) meaning curved fronted. I think they may be a bit younger than you think.
If you photograph things with a bright light behind them all you get is a silhouette. Light the side you are photographing.
Try straw work, that is the usual name. I do not recall any threads on the topic but the net in general should have plenty. The most sought after...
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