Sorry to say I could not see any antiques there, just 20th C reproductions. This is useful and probably well made stuff that just happens to be...
Deterioration of the plastic tape and loss and print through of the magnetic fields would seem to doom them to a limited life.
I think they bear as much resemblence to Pharonic heiroglyphics as wing dings do to Times New Roman. I could very easily be wrong, but they just...
I agree the antiques.com price is very much "We saw you Coming" scale. To test aneroid barometers, place them in a clear plastic bag, hold the...
Are the designs that fuzzy or is it that the close ups are simply out of focus?
I have had similar. It is a standard aneroid barometer of about 1900. The French invented the type and were main makers, exporting them to Britain...
I'd call that one a whangee stick, an old China hand would carry one to start the coolies with, the loaded end ready in case of any insolence....
To me that group look as if they are watching a witch burning and thoroughly enjoying it. Of course, it could be just the lighting and soft focus...
Is it really all blue? It looks like a colour photo negative.
Certainly electroplate.
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THe colour of gold is immutably fixed by what it is alloyed with, and how much. http://chemistry.about.com/od/jewelrychemistry/a/goldalloys.htm
Said It is most likely white gold with some silver so it could be workable. To me it sounds as if he was making it up as he went along. This...
A picture is essential, a table could be any period.
I'm thinking 'Boots and Saddles' Is there a state flag with several stars? I'd say it is 19th C and Southern to South western USA.
It was a curious thing about the USSR's command economy that the price of an item was so solidly fixed that it would be incorporated into a metal...
Well,one good thing about your new dressing gown, you will be a woman who it will be relatively simple to find out if the collar and cuffs...
Could it be a boat mortar? A larger pulling boat like a whaler sometimes used them.
I know the TV version and general rules, but I was hoping the OP might come back with some thoughts on how it really does go for a real world buyer.
Unique as a word is unique, I don't think you can call distictive a synonym, and it certainly takes no compatives such as 'enough'. By applying...
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