As for the bobbins the tangled bunch looks like fairly routine examples. Ten to fifteen years ago these sold well on ebay.com, in bundles of 20 if...
Looks like people who sell toffee thermometers can't spell long words. As I recall, my mother used it mainly for jam making. Obviously with...
I think my mother had a toffee thermometer like that
Hand blown objects in general are one offs or small production, moulded stuff is mass produced. Troble is that moulded stuff from one very...
And he let me know it arrived safely. :-)
Who knew? Not me but in theory it had to happen.
Do they really do battlefield burials like that? I'd have thought as soon as the battle moved on, the locals would have the helmet, boots and gun...
I have every card I ever had in the back of a drawer in case I live long enough to see this. It's what I thought 28 years ago, it's the stuff...
Picture files larger than a megabyte will not load. You need to resize them to smaller filesizes. Any photoediting program will do this but in my...
Museums are good if you don't overdo it. Little and often and there are some great museums in Paris. Forget the super famous ones with the...
It is not really worth any money. Similar prayer books are not uncommon, it is frequently found that things of little value do not appear on the...
No, a chatelaine is essentially a belt hook with lots of subsidiary hooks for useful things.
I will certainly try that and report back when I can get hold of an orange.
Eight symbolises 'fullness and content', as in "I just ate a good meal"
This one is strictly utilitarian, no fancy materials. I do not have any oranges in the house at the moment, but as soon as I get some some I will...
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Coins. The material is probably cupro-nickel, some were made in silver.
Could be a design for a window. I find the very wide glazing bars too obtrusive. It is a bit of a cheapo job, the artist has simply rotated 1...
[IMG] It is a late 19th C. purse.
Quite possibly a door-stop. Could represent an Amazonian parrot hawk. The species has evolved to look very much like a parrot so it can creep up...
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