Well the bobbitt thought got me thinking. Maybe asparagus?
It's a Bobbitt tray. Use is obvious.
It has dots, just that the better quality the print the finer the screen and hence the finer the dots. Think of it as pixels per inch. Even a...
I am sure that that is a photogravure reproduction.
No new hallmarking needed if no new metal added. Even if new bits were added the rule was often ignored. It's a job of work, most people can't...
Unscrew the lower part with the nib, as you would to replace the ink cartridge.
There were a couple of very similar ones on UK ebay that sold for twice what I paid so I probably did alright....
Have you looked inside the pen?
Plated or rolled gold will test positive for gold if you do not take a file to it first. It's certainly an odd looking thing.
It is a Swiss pistol shooting group award, probably latter part of the 20th C.
Obviously naval gunnery, but what rank I have no idea.
The trouble with selling off some of my junk through auction rooms is that I keep seeing things to buy. And saying 'contra this, please' does not...
An officer gets little respect till their gold braid has turned green.
The foul anchor is always naval, the crown is some official body, so not a yacht club, the gold wire is always pichbeck, or brass, and the three...
It appears to have the forward armament in superposed barbettes plus a single turret, a very unusual arrangement.
The 'power plant' may be a crematorium/incinerator, hospitals generate tons of medical watse and bits of bodies, apart from whole ones. Look at...
The service corps was the 1950s name for what in earlier armies were called the 'camp followers', bands of ladies of negotiable virtue there to...
The Hugenin mentioned was a Canadian who left for England in 1865, and although militart service is listed, it would not have been in a United...
The firstdibs link price seems utterly mad to me. The OP's example is in much better condition, but I'd not see it as more than the low hundreds...
The ashtray is essentially, scrap silver and worth its weight in silver. Lytham St Annes is a well known golf club near Blackpool, this sort of...
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