I asked my local auction house (better quality stuff variety) and they would be happy to sell it. The firm is Fieldings Auctioneers of Stourbridge.
50 years ago was 1966, a time of jet engines and orbital rockets; you could find comparably accurate instruments 100 years earlier than that....
Mercer's were best known. to me anyway, as makers of marine chronometers. They may well have made other precision instruments like this. Sniped!
The hanging sheep is part of the town arms of several British towns much involved in the wool trade, such as Leeds.
It looks as if it ought to be a printing block for a bookplate (used to show the ownership of a book) but the relief is so deep I suspect it may...
British rules are far less draconian than US rules now, although 5 years ago it was much the same in USA as here, and earlier than that I sold a...
That linked site must be using a steam powered server, after a couple of minutes a tiny part of a page had loaded.
How big is it? A grave marker sounds unlikely.
I agree.
The little horses are quite interesting, they have a Tang horse design feel about them. No size for them? The bottom brooch is probably European....
The box with the ivory birds lid may be French. Possibly Dieppe. The comb looks 1920s and may be Ivorine. (Fancy name for celluloid) The elephant...
The pictures are not all that large compared to many, no problem there. The okimono (figure) looks good but fairly simple, as they go. The brush...
It has a wick, it must be an oil lamp, but the burner appear to be sideways if that last picture is with the front hinged open. The wick should...
It could be just me but the pictures are too dark to see anything
The little springs on the mount were intended to insulate the lamp a bit from the bumps in the road.
The three towers symbol is possibly Danish.
Scott was the Ian Fleming or (someone more modern and wildly popular) of the 19th C. His books went into innumerable editions and reprints in many...
I think you are right. It's a bracelet. :-)
I'd call it an electrolier, since it has electric bulbs.
Heres the deal. You send me $1000 and I'll send your next of kin or whoever you nominate $10,000 when you die of tetanus within 6 months. I mean...
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