That is not the original binding,, I suspect it was bound in the 1860s for someone whose signature appears in it. The priciest Dickens editions...
£400 sounds good to me, you'd need to get £550 at auction overall (including buyers and sellers comission) to take that much home.
Are the legs as short as they look? It could be a nursing chair. For some reason these had short legs. Style looks late 19th C.
I think the pictures are too poor to tell.
True. It is not silver or German. It is a copper nickel alloy, possibly British given the use of English for the watch name and the metal...
I thought you had gotyour hands one one of those forklifts the US used in Afghanistan with the armoured sides and the rear gunner turret on the...
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