Wertheim was a fairly famous company, but it wasn't as big as say, Frister & Rossmann, Siedel & Naumann, the big German sewing-machine companies...
It's a vibrating shuttle machine, from the early 1900s in all likelihood. It can be restored, but the cost would be more than the machine is worth...
Wertheim was a German sewing machine company (established and headquartered in Frankfurt) with branches in Australia (in particular, Melbourne)....
Very interesting! I agree. Lighter, and cigarette cases, or possibly a cigarette, and card case.
Ooh interesting. I am still wondering why it's only half a mark, though.
That may be so - but half-marked pieces like this? I still say phoney.
All the pieces of Tiffany silver I've ever owned were clearly stamped with "TIFFANY & CO" or something similar. This stuff screams fake to me....
Unless there really is a company called "Tiffany & Sterling"? Which sounds like the biggest ripoff company-name ever. It's like saying "We have...
Surely, a company as prestigious as T&C wouldn't simply just mark their pieces "Tiffany &..." Right? They'd do it properly. Tiffany & Co. or...
What a weird object!! Never seen anything like it. I will say this much: I have seen sterling silver chopstick-rests. They don't look like...
The metal does not look like silver. It's too... 'grey'. I can't comment as to their age, but I'd agree in as much as them being some white metal...
And please turn off the flash.
They're fairly common, but they can be quite expensive.
Bought this online about two weeks ago and spent this week restoring it... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Took a lot of work to restore it (mostly rust...
It doesn't say anything. That's the scale for the regulator needle.
If I remember rightly, things didn't have to start being stamped with country-of-origin until the 1890s, so I'd say this is turn of the last...
I think it is the same mark (albeit poorly struck). So 800 silver?
A very fancy reusable straw, yes! :P I love it.
Aah, OK. Fair enough! Thanks.
...did I miss something...?
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