That's a bunch of railway preservation people having a bit of a laugh with some surplus detonators and their preserved engine. Under no normal...
I'd run a mile from anything that looked like that. Gold plating was not possible in the 18th C. No electricity. The nearest thing was mecury...
They are still being used.
Looks like a bit of mining or quarrymans equipment, I'd expect a multi holed frame inside to hold the standard pencil detonators, rather than...
Well, we could stop all the fuss by simply exterminating, humanely of course, all the remaining elephants. I meant to say, what are they really...
The boat is a punt, you can see the slanted swim and the punt pole. It is for somewhere marshy/muddy; river punt poles do not have the flat to...
If it has British connections, the WHS may stand for W H Smith, the stationers, who may have commissioned a cheap line of pens for their railway...
I have never found any economical way of repolishing the slate. I'd go with the shoe polish, well buffed.
Unless for an artistic effect never, ever photograph something towards a light source.
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I am so glad I looked twice and saw it did not say syphilitic..........
Shangas is in Australia. Antiques prices seem very high there.
Looks like a cigarette box in brass instead of silver. Always cedar wood lined. Up till the later part of the 20th C cigarettes were typically...
Cigars? What else?
Tap the ash off on? Make sure it goes in the ash tray and not on the table.
My dubious eyes read that as Budgie Ann and Iwas wondering who'd write a book about a parakeet like house pet.
They look as if they date from the mid 19th C. In todays market I see them as furnishing books, sold by the meter to dress up offices.
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