No, this is a Japanese brown Betty. http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-air-support/ww2-enemy/betty.htm [IMG]
Hotels did ot tend to use sterling silver teapots, they'd be too easy to steal and cash in for more than a week's wages for catering staff.
Not really. To some, excellence comes as standard equipment. :-)
Possibly thinking of Grand buildings at the corner of the Strand at Trafalgar Square. When I had business there I could see it could have been an...
See the importance of the apostrophe?
It's a tea set for people who live alone and get no visitors. One cup of tea and that's it. Think Elenor Rigby. [MEDIA]
It appears to be a 20th C copy of a Georgian tilt top hall table. If you go back to your post and hit 'edit' you can select full size for the...
Look up batchelor's tea set, or teapots. I expect spinsters used them too.
they "Didn’t have a pot to Piss in" My version carries on 'or a window to throw it out of' referring to the habit of emptying chamber pots into...
Peripheral vision would be rather impaired by the bar across the middle of the lens. I am assuming that they fold inwards independently of the...
The specs may be silver framed. The marks if any are usually inside the side bars. Possibly earlier than mid 19th C and the bi-focal or variable...
There are a lot of immigrant workers. That desk is for a Pole.
I'd say it means being trimmed to the image.
Elliiott of Croydon was the last of the British high quality domestic clock makers but they became too expensive to compete with cheaper imports....
Fancy spoons of this period are not uncommon, everyone who could afford them had them, and they are in my opinion worth from silver value to maybe...
If you click 'edit' on your post. you can select 'full image' for your pictures. This is preferable. No harm giving them a polish. There may have...
These count as modern FDCs and are not in much demand because the supply is quite large. The earlier ones will tend to do better, of course, but...
I find posting pics of one's young kids on an open public forum .....is a practice , that could come back to bite you in the ass...hard This is...
The pictures are too poor to see anything much. What there is looks pretty casual.
I have not seen one like it but I suspect it is from the 1970s or thereabouts.
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