Any china shop in Budapest today will have similar 'folk art' designs on dispay. I must confess to a weakness for the much higher quality...
Prices so fixed they built them into the stuff was a Soviet thing. It was an attempt to control an economy by regulating everything from...
Never mind the rare and valuable antiques, I just wish somehow we could lose all that stuff that is just old and still pretty rubbishy. Wood rots...
This may be intended to operate off 24V DC, a setup common in small ships. Do not fry it with a jolt of 240v AC. till you have made sure what it...
If it's from Wales, maybe you start it when it starts raining and it rings a bell when it stops raining, in which case 44 days ought to do it most...
Beats me, I have seen nothing like it.
The little fellow in the middle is writing in runic script.
While rummaging in the shed today I founda similarly metal cased medicine bottle/apothecary jar. Doctor's travelling tools often had such cases...
Looks like a cheese truckle.
It's a white cat in a blizzard.
In general it does not matter a stuff who made an item, it's how well they made it tha counts.
looks like pewter to me. Style is 18th V. They rarely retain the snuffer.
The more you know the more you make, and the better your collection would be. It's no use having the internet available to look things up it you...
No, virtually none do. It's not really a thing that matters as most pieces are generic utility items. Up until some time after the introduction...
Many of these meerschaum pipes were made in Vienna. Minus the original case there is no way to tell if this is so. If the stems are not amber they...
Nice little George I cup that has escaped being clobbered by some Victorian silversmith. So many were fancied up in the 19th C.
Pictures and dimensions are essential.
The only golf club I ever sold was a Scottish Sunday golf club. A walking stick with a golfclub shaped handle, from the days when the Kirk banned...
It would make it easier to see against a plain background. Different angles would probably help and also a description of what moves and what does...
You could well be right, but I'd say this was much more the case 20 years ago. When I started selling books on ebay around 1998, I made large...
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