Looks like walnut veneer. Possibly Furniture, Officers, for the use of.
Many are the most turgid works ever written. I have read a few better written 17th C ones for the insight into the time rather than any religious...
British county folk did much the same but it was strictly illegal. An unregistered pig could land you in prison. This is a good film about an...
Pretty simple --- rations. I don't know if it ever came to food shortages in the USA but in Britain, everything you'd buy, almost, was strictly...
With no sterling mark and numbers, it's got to be plated. Eatly pieces can be coin silver and unmarked, or just have a maker's name, but this...
Sing along with me now...... He's got the whole world, in his hands, He's got the whole world, in his hands............
Diamond teaters are cheap, I'd call them an essential tool for anyo e buying or selling jewellery.
I just looked at the whole regulations and it appears mercury is restricted. So am I a criminal (or more of a criminal) because of the mercury...
Testing the surface is usually no good with plate, you need to file a notch somewhere discreet. Lots of old pieces will show testing marks made by...
THey contain a very small bottle of concentated Nitric acid, and with a very small bottle of conc. Sulphuric acid and some glycerine you can make...
Is it harder than steel? In other words will a steel point scratch it? Jade is about the only material that looks like that and has that property
Could be a key. Could the lumpy bits on it fit some secret lock? In the Temple of Doom maybe?
I'll stick with a cheese truckle then.
How big is the thing?
Ivory could be sterilsed with practically anything including a naked flame. The alternatives available in the early 20th C. could not.
It's a scalpel, possibly from a military field surgeon's kit, so probably WW1 period. I'd not altogether rule out an earlier George, medical...
There are many more potential buyers online, compared with a store. Price the stuff at whatever would give you a moderate profit, unless the...
Cost and workabiliy determined the use of brass and bronze, not rust. Until the introduction of the Bessemer converter, steel was too expensive to...
Looks like a pastiche of naive painting a la Grandma Moses.
Looks duff to me. But modernish wristwatches are not my strong suit.
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