Easy to work, but not all that durable.
Yes. Fine gold is 100%, lower carats are lower percentages fine. The term is also misused, since watches marked 'fine silver' are never pure...
Not enough to cover a fraction of the cost. They are simply not worth much. Yours is the most basic movement for this type. Nicely made but...
Turkish 'tugra' symbol. Probably brass belly dancer coins, hence the hole as they were worn as jingling jewelery. Not real coins, just coin-like.
These narrowly predate the enclosed cab. They perch rather perilously close to the boiler.
Could you manage a daylight picture?
The little cross may indicate a Swiss patent number.
By the 1850s they were using those belled-out smokestacks on wood-fired engines Not in Britain, these are British engines. Always coal fired....
THe locos are from around 1850, the display may be from the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. I tried to sharpen it up a bit, but not much...
However, products of many manufacturing companies, were in fact rather superior to their western equivalents and of consistent quality The T34...
There are DIY guides to diamond grading which are quite useful. The largest stone looks about 15 to 20 points. (.15 to .2 carat) THe really tiny...
I can't see that style of nameplate before 1900. I think the attribution of the table above to mid 19th C is just a guess.
Could indeed be a J now that I come to think about the leftmost curlicule as the foot.
Well done with the photoshop, the first part is without doubt Sarg, Sarguss could the the name, the initial I read as an I. I am pretty sure it...
if the production cost changed, the next batch would be priced and marked accordingly... Probably not. More likely they would send the production...
You might call it Hollywood Regency. It is a (mid?)20th C reproduction, probably quite expensive when new. The name would be readable if the...
Probably dates from about 1920. Peter Pan was initially a stage play, this is a version as what nowadays would be called 'the book of the film'...
so that it could be seen from a distance within a candle-lit church by the entire congregation Very improbable, few could read, and even fewer...
I'd have sold you my old Mum, but the old dear died 30 years ago and she was well past her best then.
Are ryan H and miss PR the same person?
Separate names with a comma.
