[IMG] I have seen such dressers with longcase clock movements in and with fusee timepiece movements although it has been years since I saw the...
The plated ones could be wedding gifts for people you don't really like, the silver for ones that you do like. Advertise them like that and the...
I am pretty sure the royal family have tons of ivory items around a dozen palaces and castles. They will slap the beggar down.
No, and I can't think of any banknote that has what is usually called 'coin' orientation. What bills have is 'medal' orientation.
If I see a nice ivory piece I will buy it but not to sell nowadays, just to keep because I like it. We will leave experimenting with banning ivory...
The case is nice, I'd replace the EPNS with a silver set. The others could go in the cutlery drawer.
Every time we have a coronation in Britain people make anointing spoons in various designs, some accurate reproductions, some a bit fanciful. I...
[IMG] Completely agree with brad, got to be worth $10 for firewood, at least, so if you have a place for it it's a win.
Looks like a replica anointing spoon.
People do not eat caviar with metal implements. Horn is the usual chice, possibly plastic nowadays. Either it's just one of those 'not done'...
The movement does not belong to the case. Someone has taken a reasonably close diameter movement and fitted it into that case but the makers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo They are Yorkshire gravel spoons.
Modelled after a 16th-17th C representation of a dolphin and an image dating from a time when few would have actually seen one. A typical...
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Looks a bit like Montauk Point lighthouse, but I think it is a fairly pedestrian modernish picture.
I think the reason the chair(s) have attracted minimal comment is that it is a very common pre-war kitchen or dining chair that really has very...
The odd thing is that they were still using long after it was discontinued. I suppose it was part of the design of the flatware and no one...
It is a registered design mark, first time I have seen one on flatware Just search for Victorian registered design mark.
It must be on laid paper. That is paper made by laying the pulp on a fine wire grille or mesh to dry, this leaves characterisic lines across the...
I just specialise in 'anything I like'. That takes care of it. Anyway, I am usually constrained by 'you can't bring that thing into the house'
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