Looks as if it has a spring leader like any normal British grandfather clock, but it is not clear exactly how it fits the gallows at the top....
You can check hardness easily. Corundum is 9 on the Moh's scale, harder than glass, so a ruby, real or synthetic, would scratch glass.
The wear on the back looks more like worn plating. Also it is aesthetically inadequate for a Victorian piece. That centre is boring.
You shine light through the stone and measure the refraction. Needs a refractometer.
I do not know what kind of suspension it would have at the top, I'd need to see a picture of the back of the movement, but I expect it is a...
I'd say the value is pretty much the gold value. the setting is pretty cheap and the stone shows signs of wear and surface damage that I'd not...
I see that these items appear to be in Lithuania, in a gallery, auction or street market. Most of the posters here are American, I am English,...
I am pretty sure that is Victorian style. Possibly second half of the 20th C. ct on earlier stuff usually means carat. C.T. is probably a maker's...
No doubt about it. British sterling.
Not left over or old stock, at the time to have stock for several years was the norm rather than an exception. Clearance sales are modern.
It may be just me, but I really would not want to live in such a land of fear. Police station meetings, burner phones, secret e-mail addresses,...
I can give you a hint about teenagers - they don't always appreciate what an adult does Find them an old fashioned Paris pissoir, they will still...
Sounds like a couple of Euros worth of street theatre. It's the pickpockets that are the biggest plague. Keep anything you want to keep in a...
Silverplated, probably British
Has anyone got any evidence that salesmen went round with crates of samples once printing and illustrations had been invented? Nowadays you could...
The bent end is to prevent it poking a hole in whatever you are sounding.
I'd say, not very much, but they will be worth a lot less if you polish them. Bronze items need that old bronze colour.
I have similar trays in sterling silver that I paid metal value for. In England that might fetch £10 - £20. Silverplate is not popular. Unless it...
Ladies gaiters. possibly for hunting. Men's spats are much shorter, barely come to the ankle.
However complicated it is to list, related collections of this sort of ephemera do better than odd items because there is context for everything...
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