Welcome to the forum. That looks like an Arts and Crafts item, somewhat Scottish Baronial, and also a commode, which is wierd.
Sell it to the Marines, on the basis that it came from 'the coast of Tripoli'. It did, more or less.
That was a disappointment, only about $100 equivalent.
Everything in the universe heavier than Hydrogen is star born. No fusion, no heavy elements.
Pseudo science does annoy me. People who use VHF hand held walkie talkies should be notably healthy as these radios have their frequency...
The buyer was an internet bidder, could be anywhere, and even if the auctioneers told me, which they should not, I doubt if the buyer would be...
50 years ago a British title deed was usually a bundle of deeds relating to the property dating back as far as they went, somtimes for several...
Better research than I was able to manage. Looks like the date was about right, and some one or two people fancied it because the winning bid was...
Could be that the document was sold and framed after the exhibition, which was only a temporary exhibition, not a permanent affair like a museum.
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Americana is what Americans have instead of History.
The more you see the easier it gets. It would in fact be harder to read in what passed for English at the time.
Time of King John. The writing at the bottom is a 19th C summary of the the document. I googled all over the place trying to find any mention of...
It looks like an Indian Princely states coin, but may simply be a tourist souvenir made to look like one.
Freikorpurkultur. Always been big in Germany. A rare sandy beach on Feurteventura in the Canaries is littered with German nudists. Most of them...
http://fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk/auctions/107/COL Face palm, and well Duh! as they say. Lot 541 and 542 are my lots but 541 is not supposed to...
On Saturday, (tomorrow) two interesting items from the Manchester Hoard are up for auction. One is the pre-Columbian whistling vessel and the...
I think I can just remember when silver items in salerooms were sold by the ounce. Bidding was a per ounce price for the piece, so a ten ounce...
The first one looks like some kind of pickle handler, the second possibly a combined cake knife and server. Or possibly a whipped cream spreader,...
I was going to say Moroccan . Tons of this stuff all over Britain, with or without the folding legs.
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