Maybe I should export a box of stuff to Australia. It can't be that bad or we'd be overrun by Australian dealers buying stuff.
Well, don't pay too much, it is at most 2 hours work to strip, clean and reassemble with a new mainspring. Much less if the man just uses an...
Do you speak French. It might be easier to understand than your English. I do not know if there is anyone here who can read Arabic fluently but...
It's not at all hard to make steel with the surface character of Damascus steel, you grab a few pieces of ree-bar, hammer them out flat and...
An awful lot of these are made for the tourist trade. These are probably from this class. Tribally made and used examples can be quite valuable....
LM obviously stands for Lucifer Morningstar, a name for the devil. A recent multi episode documentary program on TV about how Lucifer visits the...
Looks like a 20th C. letter knife to me, in an imaginary style. In general, letter knives postdate the invention of letters, as we know them....
Another generic German, also missing the bezel. If I find my trade marks book I will look them up.
That;s a well known mark that I just can't remeber at the moment. I'd just call it 'German'. Unless you have the bezel it is spare parts anyway.
Can't tell if it is an original or a print from the picture. Art sales index may help.
Sounds like just dirt and quite possibly disuse. If it has not been used for a long time, just persisting with encouraging it to run may free it...
Small factoid, the first World War brought their production to an almost instant halt because in 1914 sovereigns and half sovereigns were...
Antiques and most notably furniture are not generally dated by markings but by style and construction, which are usually enough. Think of it like...
It appears to be a 20th C reproduction of a Louis XV French desk. Although somewhat over the top the style still has some followers. Fairly...
The push piece mechanism is exactly the same as a watch of the period, used to release a hunter or half hunter case, or the back cover. Pretty...
The clock reapirers brass cleaner is a mixture of strong ammonia, liquid soap and boiling water. Use this outdoors and say upwind. It will shift...
In my opinion it is a late 19th, early 20th C sovereign holder, almost certainly plated as I cannot see any hallmarks where they would be...
Properly fired the overglaze would be as durable as the original. It would be fused to the old glaze which is fused to the body. However, if they...
The glaze is inpermiable, like glass, so any surface treatment like paint would be liable to scratch off. Dyes typically penetrate the material...
There were once commonly carved in onyx
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