It's interesting, but I'm not sure it's ivory. I'm seeing dark flecks that would indicate bone.
Looked up the Maker's Mark: Thomas Hughes Headland (THH). Active from the 1830s, it seems. The mark I have was registered in 1853.
Well to remove (or at least reduce) the dents on this cup, all I used was a $10 wooden-shafted, steel-head ballpeen hammer I bought at a...
Thanks for the comments everybody :) Was glad I could remove most of the dents :)
Hahahaha!! Somehow I'm not entirely sure... :D
This was part of a crumpy old box lot I bought. What I am showing here are BEFORE & AFTER photographs, of my attempts to press, roll and beat out...
Does it come with a pewter carafe full of blood? ...or a suitable blood stand-in, like red wine or cranberry juice? :o
I'm pretty sure it's some sort of resin or other material. Ivory would be much 'cleaner', off-white creamy colour, and yes, ivory can (doesn't...
It's either ivory, or some sort of resin. I don't think it's bone.
Something like that would be a real exception to the rule though. Most inkwells cost next to nothing at all. I've got a silver-topped Edwardian...
It would be pretty hard to figure out where it was made, unless those decorations mean anything to anybody. Inkwells were extremely common during...
They would've been used to site the artillery pieces or something, weren't they? To figure out how many feet/yards they would be set apart, so...
DAMN IT!! And I was SO hopeful... :'(
If this turns out to be a Roman named Roman posting about Roman antiques, I think I'm gonna start a bout of uncontrollable giggling...
I BEG YOUR PARDON!? We prefer to be called penophiles! :o But I digress.... Certainly an old inkwell. How old, I couldn't say....
Coupes are pretty old-fashioned, aren't they? Do people still use/make them these days?
Last time I checked, grandfather/weight-driven clocks use string/rope on the weights that drive the mechanism. I believe this to be a very OLD...
Now THAT'S a clock!! :o WOW!!
It's my second telescope with maker's details on it, my first telescope which is two-draw, and my second guillotine telescope. I think it's super...
Given the telescope a bit of a clean and polish to restore it to proper functionality, along with blowing out all the dust and cleaning the lenses...
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