It may look OK cosmetically but it does seem to be stuck. Possibly a Bourdon tube gauge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_measurement
Was he known as Phillip the Feeble? It's not so much that the vassal lord sends back back a perfectly reasonable letter saying no one wants to...
Looks as if it might be 1920s. Very useful piece of furniture for small spaces, but also very easy to find due to huge numbers made. Good value at...
And at one time, they were all silvered- But not silver plated, and I have my doubts about all silvered. Or originally silvered. The only...
Silver plating only started when electricity had been discovered and made widely available. Think last quarter of the 19th C. Before plating...
I can't help thinking that would make an ideal christmas present for somebody.
This is a bit like Sherlock Holmes calling in Inspector Lestrade for his opinion.
Leave it be. I'd say no one who bought the mags would have the least interest in the previous, now dead, owner. This obsession with 'information'...
I liked this snippet from one description of the contents. with Black and white frontis of school boys at sport. "He flung him forcibly to the...
It probably dates from somewhere just before 1954. As far as I know it was not a classic of children's literature, and being in indifferent...
More likely a slave clock, I think.
The actual wording of the instructions could be relevant to deciding why it has such unusual construction. All the movement needs is the small...
There appears to be a lengthy explanation above the movement but it is is too small for me to read.
The date is relatively early for a vesta case and the design is typical of the early types. So it is a bit special, and to a case collector, more...
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Birmingham 1899.
Mid 20th C 15 Jewel Swiss made, no real value.
This reminds me of an IED we used to make as kids. Take a nut and two bolts that fit, about half inch diameter would be about right. Fit one bolt...
http://www.pinfireguns.com/ Although not what a collector would call a pinfire pistol (19th C cartridges with a pin sticking out of the base...
Usually called a naturalist's pocket microscope, or field microscope, late 19th C. Originally it had a case.
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