Collage, watch parts and Old Father Time, rather a banal concept, possibly classed as steampunk.
I second mean looking expression. She's the post office clerk you always try to avoid.
In my opinion it is fashion and circumstances that effect the market. Not the economy unless it is really tanking, because there are always large...
Jade is harder than steel, so an attempt to scratch a discrete spot, under a foot for example, with a steel blade will just slide off jade but...
Most 19th century or earlier furniture is pretty well made, I am pretty sure there was the same amount of poorly made stuff but it has not...
I think brad has nailed it, the drawer pulls and curvy base apron are diagnostic, also the drawer layout. If it had a mirror there should be some...
If the 800 was not a separate stamp, it was as you suspected just there to confuse, much like the vaguely 'hallmark' looking makers marks on...
Some people might think having something for 30 years was a very long time, but that's about how old this phone is. I remember such things being...
Not a problem, really. Stamping on a steel base with just the trademark raised would leave a flat back with the name impressed, and once the...
Stamped from a hardened steel die, I expect. The name 'Peerage' indicates it was made for a middle class market.
Reverse painting on glass was a mid 19th C fashion, and I have a few examples but all full size pictures. This is the first miniature example I...
I'd expect the top part to come away from the base to move it. What country are you in?
There is a market for royal related stuff like this, and the set is unusually complete and original, but there were a large number of different...
Good to know there is still some market for these.
Look at a trade directory of the period. Find a few wrought iron workers. Pick one at random. No one will ever know.
Looks like an unusual form of agate, and I'd just file off the middle ring, since you will never find anything to match.
Usually along the bottom edges of upholtery or curtains, not a fashionable practice nowadays, common enough not all that many years ago.
My collection of coloured rock eggs includes a blue john example which was quite expensive, I'd add a lapis egg if I could find one.
When i got them in a box, my oriental shorthair cat immediately pissed them off... Really. Your English is excellent but this bit may need...
The series of wars in Afghanistan has reduced the price of lapis considerably. Production used to be controlled and the prices much higher, now...
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