Allergy warning. This answer contains peanuts. Oops, so does the warning. I sympatise with your feelings about staple repairs. They are a sign of...
Spelter is damn near unrepairable. It forms a crystalline fracture surface that rapidly oxidises. Drilling into the fracture surfaces to insert a...
Different shape, much the same general comments as the last one, not very desirable. May even be a more modern reproduction, I am not familar with...
It is American, the dial centre looks as if it might have an alarm function, and US clock person would call it a shelf clock. If you search for...
Depends what you call valuable and where you are and what the clock market is like there. It was fairly cheap when new and it is not anything...
I bend my fingers at right angles to the palm (think naked sock puppet) and twist the forearm so the fingers make a slicing motion.
There is probably a maker's mark on the movement. Without more and better lit and focussed images about all I can say is that it it is late 19th...
When I first went to auctions I'd sit somewhere unobtrusive. After a whie I'd sit in the front row because I was not really bothered who was...
It does appear too be a Victorian rolled gold bracelet.
Both have a middle eastern flavour. The 800 is 80% silver, less pure than coin or sterling.
It would be one of a set of rules, I have had them complete and cased from 2 inchh to 12 inch. Probaly some special use in drafting since they...
More so than porcelain, better heat insulatiion.
Furnishing books nowadays. Sold by the yard to fill the libraries, studies and offices of the nouveau riche for decorative effect. Abuses include...
It appears to have tarnished very evenly. I'd be inclined to leave it like that as it would be more run of the mill polished up. As it is it is a...
I was thinking an offer price. A lot depends on how much you consider a gamble is worth, an amount you are willing to risk and won't suffer if it...
I am pretty sure it is not rhino horn. For a start rhino horn is solid and most of the items apart from the side horns show a hollow centre....
Looks like 1920s chocolate box style to me. A pretty pastoral reaction to the First World War. Decoratively popular up to WWII.
HRH represents the frustrated lunatic fringe of British royalty. He undoubtably means well, but occupies much the same place in public affection...
It does look a bit like a projectile from a cannon shell round, possibly a tracer round.I am wondering now if it could be from a depleted uranium...
Duly noted, thanks. The writing seems to be on the wall for ivory sales in the next few years wherever you are. It iis such a crowd pleaser no...
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