Honestly! I leave this thread to get a bit of shut-eye and what do I see when I come back!? Thanks for all the responses everybody, but yes, it...
I don't think it's for pins. It's very small. Tobacco boxes that I've seen are usually much larger, palm-sized containers. This is only about...1...
On my way into town to meet friends for dinner, I stopped at a local antiques shop. This was for sale in one of the back cabinets for what I...
Cluttered is right. What is considered 'collectible' tends to skip a generation. What's interesting to someone will almost never be interesting to...
As I said in my previous post, I've been fixing and collecting more or less my whole life. It became 'official' in 2005 when I finished...
No silver, no :P But I do like the fan. I have a thing for folding fans and I've never seen a bone one like this in this sort of condition. Most...
I didn't think it was that old, but the condition of the bone (it's starting to warp and curve) made me think that it was at least a few decades old.
Nothing too fancy. Bought this carved bone folding fan today. Not sure how old it is, but it looks like it's been around the block a few times,...
'84' is '84 Zolotnik', if I remember my Russian marking. Which is about 88% silver.
Interesting piece. Pity it's mounted in pewter and not silver.
I cannot imagine sauerkraut going well with fish. Of any kind. And especially not with silver!! :o
I don't doubt that! I don't even know what it is, really. I assumed it was meant to be a presentation cup or gift beaker or something. There's NO...
Thanks for the help, guys! My highschool-level German is fairly decent, and I'm sure if the text was clearer I would've figured out most of it on...
Oooooh!! OK I got the answer now. Hof Silber Arbeiter. "Court silversmith". Cool! :P Thanks folks.
"Bayer." would be short for "Bayern" or Bavaria, yes. But I still can't figure out what Hoffilber is. No translations or dictionaries I've looked...
Aaaaand that's just about the limit of my highschool German. Bought this at the flea-market today and I'm having a LOT of trouble translating...
M&W is indeed, for Mappin & Webb, a very famous British silversmithing firm (still around today). They would've been both the manufacturer AND...
Could be an unfinished project? Some homemade metalwork thing?
I don't think it's a mortar and pestle or a piston, but I reckon you sure as hell could use it as a mortar and pestle. I assume that the 'pestle'...
You're in the right place and in good company here, then. I was a bit like you. I visited antiques shops regularly from the age of five or six....
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