A decent locksmith should be able to craft something for it.
Aren't they adorable?? I've researched James Macklin. So far nothing is coming up definitive...
Ooh thank you!! He sounds like he'd be the right candidate! I shall research anon!
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Allow me to introduce you to two tiny two-bladed folding pen-knives I have. The Mother of Pearl one is...
Eh shadduppayourface! IS MINE!! :o
I never said it was identical. Merely that it's the same type of dip-pen-pencil combo. These were very common in the later 1800s.
Screw that! I'll take it, crime or no crime! hand it over! I swear I'll give it a good home!!
Sorry but that's not a snuff-container. It's a double-ended dip-pen and propelling pencil. I used to have one. The scoopy thing is the ferrule for...
...for holding incense...?
I'm super-confused. Where's the snuff-container?
Ballpoint + pencil. So post-WWII 1950s/60s. Even if it is silver (?) I doubt it'd be worth a great deal of money.
You can see that I have terrible eyesight? And thanks, Johnny. Dad always said I had expensive/fine taste. As Churchill said: "I am always...
This is the first time I've seen an antique plant on this forum...
And yet, ironically, I started collecting antique optical equipment... [IMG] ...because I have TERRIBLE eyesight!! :o
Thank you :) I've been busy cleaning and oiling it all day to get the draw-tubes and the sun-shield sliding back and forth smoothly without...
Out of curiosity, I typed the address: 15, Place du Pont Neuf, Paris, into Google. I came up with this image... [IMG] Here's our chap! Roughly...
After doing more research, I have come up with a name... Jean-Gabriel-Augustin Chevallier. A French optician who, according to one article,...
My father always bullied into me, to buy the best things at the best prices. That's all I'm trying to do. I shall sell off some of my other...
"Forgive me father, for I have shopped..." "...Gee, I...dunno the correct penance for that. I suppose you could say 'Three Hail Macys'...?"...
I did. And it worked great. Mind you I used a ridiculously small amount.
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