I ran across this unattributed image of a "beverage heater" , for lack of a proper term. It piqued my curiosity. Not being a linguist, I was...
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Thank you! being ADD, my life is littered with abandoned
That's a lovely aesthetic movement design! I agree, low value as-is, perhaps $30 or so, depending on size. If it has it's old wavy glass intact,...
This is all too silly for words. ;)
Welcome TIVCT! I would classify the style of your pier glass as Renaissance Revival, popular roughly between 1850-1880. I have seen examples of...
If that is your objective. I will continue to remain objective.
I do speak a little Spanish , so can catch a Latin base now and then, even with other languages such as Finnish, but everyone speaks too fast for...
In all honesty, I've only tried the UK. I have never been to France, but the language is daunting.
Just throwing out the possibility of a different line of inquiry.. Order of the Privateers? :angelic::angelic::angelic:
Yup, I find rocks sort of boring. We do have some prehistory sites, but I'm much more interested in Anglo history. The dig team I was on two years...
I would love to live somewhere with that much history, but they won't have me. Things here in Oregon don't have much age on them.
The reason I am seeing dragons is that I seem to remember some Knights fort somewhere in my wanderings, possibly in Malta or Kos, that called...
My thoughts exactly! Pony Express.. in fancy dress!
This is a fascinating piece! I know nothing about Templar seals, but had a go at Google. The standard images usually show two riders in tandem....
And some of their bottles are listed on Worthpoint, but I don't have a subscription. I like them too!
The back may have been replaced. It looks c.1900 to me, mass-manufactured, catalog piece.The beveled glass is nice.
It might be for a Brewster? here's a a Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope [ATTACH]
I dunno. It looks like knife stitching to me, fairly common on some Victorian garments, ruffled skirt tiers for example. [ATTACH]
I'm not familiar with English upholstery techniques, but in the US I would have expected this chair to originally have had hand-tied coil springs....
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