@Jal Or on a key chain - never misplace your keys again... :joyful:
We once knew socially a man who regularly went looking for Noah's Ark. This is not a joke. Back in the 1980s, he with a group of people regularly...
'ever seen the pockets on the coat of the Marx Brother Harpo...?
@KSW I saw in a documentary (or read somewhere) that the Catacombs in Rome had to be closed to the public because visitors made off with so much...
@Jal Sounds like it's a religious memento from a holy place, like the Vatican, or Jerusalem, Bethlehem. A small piece of wood may represent a...
Thanks, Cheryl! Yeah, we have them here too in the U.S. We don't have a name like travellers for them. More like "fly-by-nighters", or scammers,...
They seem to be mixed up in the movies I've seen. Saw in a documentary about gypsies that the word gypsy comes from Egyptian. When gypsy caravans...
Oh, thank you! @komokwa and @Ghopper1924! As in "tatty". Never saw it used as a noun before :banhappy::joyful: . :hungover: In Swedish tattare...
Reminds me of butterfly wing jewelry. Have had/sold a lot of it way back. Butterfly wings were collected during and after the world wars in Italy...
Yes, 'Bear, shelf is definitely Ikea-styled. What is a "tat"? Saw "buffet" now. Thought of it as a sideboard as they are more commonly known in...
@Ownedbybear I was referring to the corner shelf stand in light wood. Can @Antique_Bill clarify what furniture is to be discussed here?
The design and construction are quite generic. Early examples of this minimalist modern furniture definitely did make their debut in the 1920s,...
Is that a ghost of a cat in the center?
Construction appears to be MCM.
Ges Gesch. German cousin of Pat Pend, Pat Reg in USA, Marc Deposé in France. Beware: These guys' names are very often mistaken for famous [read...
@Any Jewelry Thank you! Yuseewhaddamean, the W list just gets longer and longer. What should belong somewhere else doesn't necessarily. I e, the...
@evelyb30 Right you are. In the 1990s a scandal brewed about phoney Czech jewelry, widely discussed on the c.j. boards back then. A man whose name...
I second @Ownedbybear : Czech, Bohemian, 1920s-1930s. As I mentioned somewhere else around here, the Czech [Bohemian] c.j. production after WW I...
@Fid Well, you aim to sell them so won't have to suffer sitting in them yourself for too long. I've always held the opinion that chairs intended...
What a wonderful house! Would make a wonderful backdrop for a period romantic murder mystery movie :oops::lock::peeking::shifty::vulcan::joyful:
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