I think I'd call it "Mr. Magoo".
looks like a variation on this with a custom handle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbairn%E2%80%93Sykes_fighting_knife
Npte that prices have come down a lot in the last 16 years.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collectable-Clocks-1840-1940-Reference-Price/dp/1851491953 The general user's bible. Cheap at any price in my opinion.
That is called a platform escapement and looks to be a cylinder type and original to a C. 1900 time piece movement.
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The coins are Ottoman empire, 1327, year 7 of the reign of Mehmet. 5 kurush I think. One is dated 1916, so clearly no earlier than that, probably...
Good pictures, which is high praise from the board's most cranky picture critic. I thinnk it is antique, has worn thin, so thin in the lower part...
The first mention of 20,000 dimes is about 50 kilos of silver. The second mention of 70,000 is about 175 kilos or about one two bar stools fat...
If you are in the Netherlands, I expect they came from the Netherlands as they do not look as if anyone would trade them internationally.
sniped [IMG] I'm guessing late Roman empire. Diğer tarafta bir resim göndermek ve boyut ve ağırlık vermelidir. Malzeme gümüş gibi görünüyor....
Hi there. This money came out of the soil dig. I think at least 500 years have passed and I want to sell it. There are 32 of them. What's the price?
Crudest way to make the tick regular, prop up one side or the other of the clock till it is in beat. More elegant suggestion if that works.
Clocks cannot be too wound up. This is only possible with people. Sounds as if it may be out of beat. Is the tick perfectly regular or like...
How does it stop? Does it tick a bit then peter out, not tick at all, run busily with the pendulum off? Is it in beat? Is it wound up? It can be...
I have never had an embarrasing moment, those around me seem to have them often.
Anything modern Chinese marked as silver needs a thorough testing to see if it is silver.
2 auctions a week for 20 years is about 2000 auctions. Examining and handling about 50 items per auction and thinking about all of them is about...
I posted this in anther place, but it is relevant to so many questions posed by members that I thought to re-post it here....
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