That's intentional. The hotel didn't want anyone sitting around its lobby longer than 20 mins...
I collected handmade lace doilies many years ago. Mounted them against blue background fabric in guilded and white antiqued frames covering a...
Google translate shows the word knyppla [Swedish] to mean make lace. It does not specify how a particular type lace is made. In Swedish the word...
Here's a very similar sewing table to mine, a little simpler in lines but essentially styled the same. Note the fliptop lid over the compartments...
Re Tatting: Ladies with their tatting cushions supported by small tables. Finland, 1980s:...
Well, I do believe that you're describing a type of sewing table common in the British Isles. With bags, etc. The sewing table I have, the...
@James Conrad Such a bag would probably be long done by now, James, don't you think? But the shelf, with the cutout for the legs would be the...
To those who claim that it couldn't be a sewing table, allow my explanation for why I believe so: The shelf below the drawer has a rounded shape...
I rewired an early 1900s Edwardian 5-arm chandelier in the 1980s. The old wiring I removed was clothcovered as was most wiring before...
The English, and Welsh of course, probably the Scots and Irish too, were way ahead in cleanliness, hygiene, over France. Earlier mentioned here,...
Re Single Use of Chinese cheaper porcelain wares: I read that about the Boston [USA] importers/exporters of oriental wares. When they had unpacked...
I was referring to: https://aarf.com/fecant98.htm .... Chinese Canton ware was shipped to Europe and America in the holds of cargo ships which...
@Ownedbybear I stand corrected re workhouses being for those who couldn't support themselves. However, let's not split hairs about what consisted...
@Ownedbybear English silver soup spoons were often in a style without a marked point.The pattern Rattail by Wilton House [1930's], made in...
The book "L'Envers de Versailles" describes the not-so-well known sides of the palace of Versailles, the "reverse". Among those was the fact that...
So you should really be Siamese twins to drink out of the conjoined glasses? Or very very very close...:bag:
That I do believe. However, those seats usually followed the form of the chair seat somewhat, squarish. The completely circular hole was probably...
Very likely pewter. Popular across the world in early times, compare here:...
Just because someone identified it or not as a potty chair doesn't diminish its antique worth I think. And just because someone debunked it in a...
You're welcome to call Kovel's on it, @blooey :arghh:
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