A telescope like that would be older than 1850. Those sliding lens-shutters had died out by then. They were really common on Georgian telescopes...
I had an old, broken celluloid fountain pen from the 1930s. To find out what all the hype was about celluloid and its legendary flammability, I...
I would be EXTREMELY weary of doing the hot pin test. If it's antique celluloid, you just turned it into a bomb. Old celluloid plastic is...
Members of A.com trying to solve the mystery of the wooden box... [MEDIA]
I always thought the long S died out in the 1700s. I didn't realise they still used it in Victorian times. The engraving is just so...
Thankfully not. I'm becoming much more uh...discerning with the ones I buy these days.
HOW MANY? Uh...at least half a dozen. Probably 8 by now? I plan to sell at least two of them at an antiques fair at the end of the year, though.
Isn't something like that called a PAYMASTER'S CHEST? As in, a chest to store the account/pay-books, gold, silver, notes, coins, etc...? Maybe...
Sue me! I bought another one! In my defense, I sold three pieces of silver, and a pocketwatch, to atone for my sin... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
As others have said, they're called hotpots or steamboats (my family, we called them 'steamboats'). In Japan, I think they're called Nabe or...
This is certainly not a writing box. I've seen more than enough of almost every kind of writing and stationery box than you can imagine, to know...
My area of specialisation is antique writing equipment and accessories. I'm not sure what use I'm gonna be here. Brass fittings were actually...
Can we see the entire tray? :)
I was gonna say. I've seen a lot of seals, and I don't see how this is a seal...
Must be a bloody old camera. That thing looks huge!
Save the pictures as JPEGs or something that preserves quality but reduces filesize, and then upload them here as FULL IMAGES (as opposed to...
Need more (larger, and clearer) photos. We can't tell anything from a postage-stamp unfortunately. It looks interesting, whatever it is.
This law is ridiculous. Words will not change anything. You wanna stop ivory poaching? Then keep spraying their tusks bubblegum pink or whatever...
Banning pre-47 ivory is gonna make a LOT of people extremely unhappy. I wonder how many world-renowned museums would willingly smash up their...
Yeah, definitely bone. You can see all the pitting and lines where flesh and muscle used to connect to it. Marrow-flecks and all that stuff....
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