As far as I know I have never seen British electroplate on anything other than some kind of white metal, certainly never brass. Obviously Danish...
Having filled many of the most likely spots, I am now looking for silver bowls for the cats, my cactus plants stand on a silver tray, and at...
He looks as if he has eaten a wasp. And I'd fail him on gun safety. He should be carrying that gun broken (with the breech open), unless he is...
I have been buying silver recently, just pieces to have around the house, or stack away in my hoard box. I tend to hoover up anything that is...
It's a double barrel shotgun, you can just see the opening lever above and behind the breech. It's remotely possible it could be a double rifle,...
The Anatomy of Plants with an idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, Lectures read before the Royal Society, by Nehemiah Grew MD 1682. I'd...
Why, oh why do people take pictures facing towards bright light. Use the light on the item. It appears to be a Chinese Jardiniere in what is...
British salerooms are full of them. Cheap. You'd need a larger slope to make it easy, they do come a few inches wider than that one. I envisage...
That may be optimistic....
These are not uncommon, here are a batch of sold listings from ebay. THere were many other makers in addition to the Protector Lamp Company....
It is a relatively modern 'home decor' item, not an early phone. These were all over the place in the 1970s. It is quite possible they are still...
But it is not Tunbridge ware.
I'd mount a small swivel gun in it and use it to repel Jehovah's witnesses, self styled 'tree surgeons' and other pests.
That is not Tunbridge ware but parquetry decoration. Parquetry is geometric marquetry. Tunbridge is wood micro-mosaic. The wood around the leather...
Lobster clasps are usually marked if they are gold. I am also seeing GF.
No. that's a European 1 with a rather large serif. A seven is much the same with a cross-bar.
I think you are working on the product of an Egyptiam 'Billy and Charlie'.
Swiss, 1930s, band probably original, the style is typical. Not a high grade piece, 5 years plating was pretty well as thin as it ever got. The...
Permit a little hyperbole.
The thing about Grandmother's stuff is that she may have bought it when she was 80. People tend to forget this and assume the grannie had it from...
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