Kinda reminds me of the Summer Palace in Peking. Only a bit, though.
So much for asking for help... I'll do it on my own...I came here for assistance, not ridicule at my choice of antiques. I have enough crap to...
Better photos: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Can someone decipher the hallmarks for me? I've figured out what the AK is (Assay...
My latest splurge item: Made in Moscow... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Not all tiny spoons are for salt. Could be mustard or honey too, but it looks cute either way.
I was chatting with one of the stallholders I'm friendly with, and he literally came up and offered it to me. First he tried to sell it to the...
[ATTACH] Bought this from a French guy at the flea market this morning... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That's quite a bowl! But yes as Bronwen says - 'STERLING' is actually a fineness level - it means 925 or higher. Yours is 800 - which most...
Sold it! Made a nice, fat profit off of it, too... :)
I honestly don't know. It may be. It looks like it.
I'll let the photos speak for themselves. Price paid: $25.00 Not a damn thing wrong with it. No rips, tears, dents, scratches...some minor...
Yeah I struggle finding knives I like. They're either too big, or too small, or they look incredibly UGLY. I bought this one because it was a...
Just to give you an idea of how much effort went into cleaning this knife - here's a photograph of one of the paper towels I used to clean it...
I wandered into a local antiques shop yesterday and bought this from a selection of maybe five or six knives on sale in a cabinet... [ATTACH]...
I use sewing machine oil for almost everything. Locks, sewing machines, typewriters, pocketknives, polishing, cleaning, flushing out gunk...It's...
If the smell of WD-40 is especially off-putting, you could try sewing-machine oil. That is also very runny, but has no odour.
I'm pretty good with writing boxes. But never tried a sewing box. I should try and pick one up somewhere in not-too-bad condition and see if I can...
I gotta learn how to do this stuff... :o Writing boxes, yes. Sewing boxes? I've never tried...
Those goblets are GORGEOUS!! :o
I seriously doubt 1920. By then these things would've been VERY outdated. Edwardian period would be their last gasp.
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