http://www.theswedishtiger.com/xdues7.htm They are Postage Due stamps, I cannot see them well enough to figure out if I have the right issue...
It is a maker's mark rather than a hallmark. It does not really matter who made it, if it is sterling as marked, it is worth the metal value which...
Well, you have a customer here I have no AF marked silver. :-)
KI would be surprised if it was anything but mahogany, most of the stuff used in the period had no significant figure.
Some blokes in a shed somewhere.
I'd take it to my local auction room but have no great expectations, estimate £50 - £80, although excellent quality and fine for the job of...
I will buy nice carved antique ivory but beads are just boring.
If that thing in the man's hand is a hawk, it looks like a frog to me. Hence my caption. More Kermit than Kes.
The guy is saying "I've brought you another frog to kiss but frankly, I think you are wasting your time."
It appears to be late 19th C. French. The exact maker would be fairly irrelevant, they were all good quality.
Looks like a fantasy piece modelled on Nazi ceremonial daggers. The overall form is that of a dirk, but not the appearance.
That may have been what the poster intended it to say. :-)
Not sherry, cocktails. The sherry glass is tallish and narrow to capture the aroma of the sherry. Who cares what a Pink Lady smells like, (except...
In the entire thread only the manufacturers got the spelling right. Its a mantel A mantle is a shawl-like garment or for some reason a gas mantle
Copreous Related ro coprophilia, coprolites, etc.
I think they just did it to be different and because it is hard to do, justifying a higher price.
I don't see where the dung comes into it.
It looks like a 1960s novelty cocktail cabinet globe. If it were antique You'd find the publisher of the map somewhere on the surface. If it...
It seems remarkably small. Does the history of cheesemaking include tiny cheeses?
Can't really get any idea of the size of it.
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