Thank you, the sideboard has been in the family ever since it was made, it was given as a wedding present to my great great great Arnity (I think...
That's a real shame :( the only way it to take off the old lacquer and have it redone.
Sand can be very interesting if you have a microscope, a good excuse to buy one of these, (that's the microscope in the middle)
I find geology interesting as well, I often ask my 7 year old son igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic, when we pick up stones off the beach
These do make good money these days, I bet the person who treated it so badly in the past wished they hadn't...
These often have damage because restoration is close to impossible, could you not re-polish your gaming table?
Fortunately the flints were taken from the beach unfortunately smugglers dug 100's of tunnels all over the town lol
The flints are bigger than a large potato, I live very close to chalk cliffs that have the flints in, the flints also litter the beach so I assume...
It is strange though because normally they have a clasp lock but there isn't any signs of holes?
The Lock and the hinges were changed in the Victorian period, clearly the Victorians didn't think the Persians were any good at metal work (they...
This huge Khatam cabinet needs restoration as the fall front is broken in half but is still a very important piece. Made in the late 18th or early...
Lol
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Is that a serious offer or are you joking? Surely you could just covert their weight into Kg.... I'm missing something aren't I?
The wall wasn't meant to be the focal point :happy:
The wall is signed by the makers TB and EM halfway down, it's about 90ft long and 10ft in it's highest point built in 1874[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
No not Norfolk, East Kent, but I know why you think Norfolk, the flint walls in my garden?
These are the only other set I can find from the same company, but I would say these are later...
I have owned these lovely scales for 2 years now, when I got them they were in need of restoration, the brass and wood had seen better days. After...
These are my ones from the ebay listing [ATTACH] reassembled
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