Unflattering depictions of the Irish are usually an English habit, I don't think the Dutch would be much interested.
Miniature prayer books were common around 1900, often smaller than this and often with silver covers. To date a prayer book of the C of E (or...
Those buttons would make a good lot in a local sale, they are just right to attract people who like sorting through great piles of stuff they are...
That sounds like a plan, even a good plan, but, and some may shudder to hear it, but the contents of the shed and garage are being boxed up and...
It is not a receptacle, just a groove. It does not have any sharp edges, nothing I could cut myself with and I just took it out of my pocket and...
It says Patent but the number is very tiny and hard to decipher, might be 10085 or 65 , All the stamps are blurred. That would, I assume, be a UK...
I have sold hundreds of lace bobbins. Anything unusual there? Bone amd personalised one fetch the most, plain wood is bottom of the pile but still...
I'm not the only person here so no harm in details. It is possible the other one was for perfume bottles, and I'd not really thought of that use
Not really noticeably and it has that shallow groove all round the front(?) edge.
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How would that work?
I have no idea if that is right or not but I can't but respect anyone who knows their way around those millions of US silverware designs. They...
Too large for a thimble box, I have had a few of those, and probably a needle packet box. Neither have any internal compartments, and I suspect...
[ATTACH] Here is an odd item, presumably in the kitchen cutlery category judging by the handle that could be any old knife or fork. The white...
Found this in the shed. It seems to me to be a possibly 19th C Japanese newspaper, I could be wrong and it's Chinese. There seems to be some...
I don't buy much nowadays, but could not resist these little boxes when a runner called in with them. One is a miniature Georgian knive box with...
Don't forget the china smashing stall at fairs and the Greek restaurant market for plates. :-)
In my opinion it is 20th C. The base lettering, assuming the base is original, is not remotely 18th C, and the general style looks 20th C. to me....
Looks like an Irish poacher, and the church tower is not Dutch.
Pictures with flash burn should be discarded and redone. It does appear to be a modernish reproduction of a 17th C style globe. Some of these...
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