Hey dude. Repairing that broken piece in the photo is going to be next to impossible. Unless you can find an identical pair with matching parts,...
2nd-to-last photo. That little brass thing in the drawer is the bottom half of a Chinese padlock.
Provided they have everything to keep them going and they're not rusty, these old machines will literally sew until doomsday. There's thousands of...
Like I said, I'm extremely familiar with these things. My astigmatism is atrocious.
And that's literally all I know about it, because half the mark is missing. The rest of the mark would tell me the purity of the silver, and the...
I could've told you what they were without the link. But yes, that is what they are - supporting frames for trial lenses. As someone who's worn...
Carbon steel is more likely, I think. There's a reason why a lot of antique steel-ware was plated - it rusted at the drop of a hat, due to there...
This reminds me of a directory signboard I saw in a friend's office-building once. One of the signs read: "Dr. Paino - Dental Surgery".
They don't look like no oriental characters I ever seen!
ALL FOR BUNS AND BUNS FOR ALL!! *throws custard tarts into the air and skewers them with pastry-fork!*
Muffineer.
Hi AJ, Yes I knew that already. That's why I was confused...
This bit: Very sorry Shangas, but that is a fantasy on the tourist tarantella of Naples, which has nothing to do with curing tarantismo.
I have literally no idea what you just said.
This has absolutely no relevance to anything at all, but, in Italy, the dance believed to cure the bite of tarantula is called a tarantella. This...
Weighed the silver. The jug and bowl are 300g+ each, and the plate is about 225g.
[ATTACH] Jug: 'STERLING 925' on the base. Bowl: 'STERLING 925' on the base. Plate: 900 I've shown the plate before, but since it's all...
Treadle sewing machines have been around since sewing machines were born. My grandmother used to have half a dozen of them in her shop.
MoP and gold-leaf etc, were common on European machines in the 1800s and early 1900s. You have to remember that sewing machines were almost luxury...
My contribution, while called for, will be completely pointless now. A Wertheim Superba 'D'. Made in Germany, probably 1870s-1900. Very old...
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