I suspect the lighter is 1930s. I found the link before I read enough of the post to see you knew already....
The only mark that matters is the 14K mark. The other just relates to some guys in a shed somewhere, John Doe and Co.
Hard to imagine what you'd hook the safety chain onto.
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For coins and stamps I am reasonably expert, and davey knows his coins as well.
Just a comment, the testing 'gun' works with X-rays, not a laser. It measures X-ray flourescence.
Maybe it is the pictures but it looks a normal gold colour to me. Are there no markings inside the shank?
Graves was one of the biggest early mail order retailers in Britain. When the Post Office refused to collect packages in bulk from the main...
I'd have gone to £80 on the clock, but I am a bit of a bargain hunter. I like 'No stale eggs' Get a bad one and you throw it away before cooking....
How concerned is the new homebuyer in the street with style? How quickly would they get tired of this year's version? All the home makeover shows...
What did the clock go for? What possible instructions could you have for an egg cup, even a premium one? Insert egg. Remove one end of shell....
Way to take it and run with it, baby! Work up a treatment and have your people call my people! Seriously, it's as good as most of the other crap...
Not really that simple. Furniture styles are and were quite international, and US makers would be copying European styles for the same reason...
I don't have the money to do this, and I am pretty sure no-one who does have the money would be interested. However, I'd like to take two empty,...
The shell marquetry motif was found on just about all Edwardian Sheraton Revival furniture big enough to fit one in. Search Sheraton Revival for...
I see no harm in it, if it is a resin set it has no real value. My opinion is that resin imitations of Ivory should be outed and usually...
It is Britiish from the early 20th C. It is NS not SN. Stands for nickel silver, a copper nickel alloy that contains no silver. It was typicla to...
If the Omega is a lady's watch, the value will be far lower than a man's size example. The thing is that only men collect or hoard old watches,...
I have a problem remembering that 'middle of the last century' means 'younger than me' not 1850s.
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