One thing I love collecting is antique pocketknives. My collection is not vast, but I do have a thing for antique Mother-of-Pearl and ivory...
While a lot of what you say is certainly TRUE, I think the issue people have is that a piece made of brass, or wood, or porcelain, or...
I wish I had your luck. We couldn't get rid of it fast enough. You literally couldn't sell it for love, or money. S'why when I sell stuff online...
Tarnished silver vs. tarnished silverplate becomes really easy to spot, when you've seen as much of it as I have. And I agree, silverplate tarnish...
No idea. But it's very pretty!
China makes buttloads of these cheap pocketwatches. I wouldn't be surprised if it was less than 10 years old.
I've bought some pretty impressive bargains over the years, but nothing on this level!!
I WAS after the box!! You can find razors anywhere. Even identical ones, if you search hard enough. But finding the CASE that they go in is...
Fortunately, our family is not similarly affected. Not yet, anyway. Dad didn't start thinning until he was in his 60s.
Here we are. I rubbed red leather-polish/shoe-polish onto the surface of the box (also leather) to cover all the scuff-marks and scratches, and...
Yeah, antique cutthroat razors rust at the drop of a hat. Unless they're kept BONE DRY, they'll start sprouting brown patches and waterspots...
Considering that baldness runs on both sides of the family here, I'm in no desperate hurry to remove hair with any great haste. My cousin lost...
They took nearly three weeks to get here, all the way from Manchester in the UK, through rain and snow and sleet and hail, through blistering heat...
I have seen trunks/cases like these, which were advertised as cabinetmaker's chests, used for storing all the chisels, mallets, saws, hammers,...
I also see H-L-A.
It was just so unusual, I had to have it!
LOL!! Possibly, OBB, but the other end is more like a flat spatula, rather than a scoop, or hook. I mean I suppose if you tried hard enough, you...
I have other pieces of Australian silver (not many, but a few) which are also marked "STG SIL". So yes, it wouldn't surprise me that it IS...
Flea market, this morning. $5.00!! I was like Hell yeah! I'll take it! If for no other reason than I've never seen one before, and it was...
Those are gorgeous!! And in very good condition for the age. Most candlesticks I see look like trash!!
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