I suspected that this might be the response I'd get, but hey, at least I tried!! Never mind! I still think it's beautiful. The thing that really...
I don't normally post in here, because I don't normally buy glassware & ceramics. But this was too pretty not to buy, and I felt, for a great...
Great! Something which I've never seen, but have to have! Now I have to track one down, and add it to my collection! I HATE YOU ALL!!!
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In the old days, seamstresses and tailors would button or sew a pad of cloth around the top of the sewing-machine arm, and they'd use it as a...
Definitely an industrial machine. The model number is on the plaque on the side. This one has been VERY heavily used, and looks like it has...
I can tell you this much. That ain't no opium pipe. It's a Chinese water-pipe, used for smoking tobacco.
Chatelaines were very out of date by 1922 ('cause everything today is thoroughly modern...). Fashions had changed so much in the interwar era....
Bought this cheap on eBay. Hopefully it isn't another dud. Has Chinese character hallmarks stamped into the back. I THINK I can identify the...
I think the majority of them WERE plated. I've never seen one that was gold.
I've tried that already. Still can't figure it out.
It SHOULD, but I can't figure out what (if anything) they are. Here it is: [ATTACH]
I'd seen these things for years, but I didn't know what they were called until I found them on the website of a local antiques shop. I did not...
Been after one of these for years, but they cost a small fortune on eBay...which is saying a lot, because they're not even gold. This is my...
They're probably nickel-plated brass.
Antique "ringer box", for old candlestick telephones. Like this: [IMG]
The cross-shaped area on the left is for the razor. The rectangle next to it is for the blades. The slot next to it is for (?) maybe a stypdic...
The verdict is in: nickel-silver. Somehow I half-expected that. Thank god I didn’t pay a bundle for it! This is why I stick with hallmarks.
Maybe it depends on the size? I've only ever known stacking cases like this to hold FOOD. That's what they've been used for, for centuries.
Smaller ones are used as lunchboxes, and are typically called tiffin carriers... [IMG]
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