What was the weight and class of USPS mail used. This would define the delivery service.
It was not uncommon for widows to take over their husbands business. They would probably be in more of an executive role than an actual fabricator...
It is not going to have anything to do with customs, but the crucial thing to do is contact the local sorting/delivery office. They deal with the...
Possibly 1920s. I'd call it a library table rather than a desk.
I see this as a cry for help :-)
The rhomboid mark is a British registered design mark. The style is neo-etruscan with that beaded edge. Period about 1880. This type of thing was...
The gun picture is too dark to make out any details apart from the fact that it appears to be a percussion action, possibly a shotgun if double...
Artists re-use old canvas because it can be available without paying any cash, something artists are usually very short of. Recycling is nothing...
those tend to have more solid surface area than hole area. I did think they were a bit holy, so maybe they are prayer mats?
Looks 20th C to me. Could be an older painting painted over. Also, artists are not cameras, what goes down on the canvas may be anything from...
I'd call it a road menders lantern. Smallish parrafin lamp that in the 1950s would be hung on road works at night to warn drivers there was a...
Emergency runway mats?
Sterling late 19th C. marks possibly for Samson Morden, a popular maker.
It is a routine time and alarm from, as you say, the early 20th C. SRFA means slow(retarde) fast (advance) and are slow/fast in English and...
It is 4031 white rags at 5 and 3/4 cents each. If paper was involved that was clearly what they were for. The extra $5 might have been carriage.
My experience of antiques with dates on them is that they are almost always fakes. If there is a reason for the date such as a marriage item, they...
You can't give away modern commemorative plates, but the VOC marked ones may be shipwreck salvage, some early wrecks have been unloaded and the...
I'd say it is a fairly expensive Spanish tourist souvenir, second half of the 20th C. There are replicas of Columbus' ships in Southern Spain, I...
The centre looks like enamel on copper to me, the distinctive blue colour is typical on contra enamelling that has to be used on any enamel on...
You will not find any in pure gold, 18 carar is the highest purity you will get You might find a pair made from half sovereigns, 22 carat, with...
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