Just a guess but I'd say it is worth less than the cost of shipping it anywhere.
Just seen the other side which does appear to depict late 19th C warfare.
At the battle of Waterloo, for example, you would have both horsemen in armour, if not full plate armour, and cannons and muskets, and even a few...
They may also be clear urethane dipped for a hard shiny finish.
It appears to be a ball of onyx in a gold mount. Is there a stamp on the suspension ring?
Yes, it's a ladies fob watch from about 1900 or maybe a decade earlier. It is a Swiss made and cased example, almost certainly with a cylinder...
I have several good MCM pieces I am sitting on Chairs, I hope. Though I am sure you'd look lovely perched on a standard lamp. :-)
A moments thought leads me to the conclusion that you use it for rangfinding where the target and gun are at different heights above sea level.....
That ebay one appears to have a date on the bottom in 2005. The seller thinks it is solid silver.
It says 'Liberty' to me. The shop, not the concept.
1901, probably, certainly London, the mark is sideways.
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Pfingston It was the daily beatings the young Mr Pfingston received in school for the spelling of his name...
It appears to be a lower case gothic 'o' om a canted corner rectangle, but it's probably a combination of wear and being slightly out of focus...
I will pick them up later today, the saleroon is only about 15 miles away.
Three medium sized 19th C reverse paintings on glass. Spotted while browsing the catalogue of a local low level auction house, so I left a bid and...
Well, you did me a favour, so it's not all bad news. :-)
I assume you mean at auction? Surely it would do better than that in a retail setting. Retailers try to avoid relatively cheap things that...
The brown furniture market is very slow, and there are a lot of similar items about. They are more or less indestructable but just not what young...
Because just 'pants' means it's rubbish.
It seems nearly 60 years ago Americans knew how to spell Theatre the correct way. Portland is damn near being in Canada. Maybe they were more...
Separate names with a comma.