Way before computers! Card catalogues and rotary telephones. :hilarious:
Yes, they are. I type neighbour, and it wants neighbor. I am almost fanatical about keeping it Canadian/British, LOL.
Oh, for the days when you didn't know when the mail would arrive and you spent days in delicious anticipation! When I was 10 or 11, I used to cut...
IMHO, not brutalist, but, as your daughter said, a dragon pot. I would think that's many people's for impression. Way cute!
Doesn't always work, LOL. When I write in Canadian English, I get a lot of squiggly red lines under some words.
1000/1000. "Pure" silver. I have an orange bowl with a silver design with same silver mark.
Kathryn did a very nice job!
Looking at thepotteries info on David Chapman & Sons, the date and type of wares fit.
Did you get that from the rd number? Not Worcester. Late 19th/early 20th c. I bought a Royal Lily patterned c & s in Scotland at an outdoor...
What I love about this group is that I come up with some vague motion that my aging brain coughs up and then someone here runs with it and gives...
The cup has a quatrefoil shape. But towards the end of the 19th c there were more what I call "fancy" shape designs by many factories. It's a...
Mother's ruin, and I quite like a sweet sherry from time to time.
Is that term in one of the links? I have never heard it before either, but quite apt for the type of structure!
Thanks, AJ! I didn't think it was Dutch, but more likely German because of the crosses as you mentioned.
I take the other posters' points, so I dunno, but I think there's more quality here than may first meet the eye. There is a fair amount of...
I'd've picked it up, too. Painting of good quality and different from the run-of-mill pieces.
Kudos! Who knew that collecting could be so labour intensive!
The fellow on the left on your plate looks a great deal like Punch from Punch and Judy fame. Definitely some sort of bacchanalia.
I dunno the mark or country it's from, but I used google lens on the label and got this:...
Wowser -- the pipe cleaners show the intricacy of the carvings -- and how difficult to clean!
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