I suspect the hilt is reconstituted amber fragments. Reconstituted Amber. Small rejected pieces of amber are reconstructed by pressing them...
I think it looks more like bronze than brass.Is it as heavy as it looks?
Probably Indian and fairly new.
Baccarat springs to mind. I'd say not a mascot with no way of fixing it.
Taking some of the Hoard stuff to auction prompted me to add this item to the pile, and luckily there was a specialist auction coming up. More of...
An interesting fact about sugar tongs is that they steadily became shorter from the late 18th C to the mid 20th C. I'd say thse are early 20th C....
How about a hydrographic application, measuring sea water temperatures at various depths, diffent retrieval speeds for the dangling themometer? I...
Then again, who speaks of stores but the military. It may have been attached to a winch that deployed barrage balloons, although half an hour for...
Does the pully on the back drive it? If so, I must dismiss my first idea of a barometric rate of climb/descent indicator. If it is connected with...
I read a couple stories from news sites about a guy who restored them had one explode and kill him. Unlikely. Unless this was the very first one...
Not what I'd call banded, either. It lust looks like a filled void in the rock.
Generally the plated stuff will show wear at the most rubbed points. Unpolished cupro nickel will look slightly yellow. Unhappily, neither are...
The only danger would be if he dropped it on his foot. It is a popular Hollywood fantasy that has cannon balls exploding on battlefields like...
Not moss agate which is very distinctive, but some form of agate probably.
To the best of my knowledge USA has never used any form of import marking or any other official fineness marks.
I'm with you on that, decoys must not only look, at least to a bird, reasonably like the species being hunted, but actually resemble a species...
Must have been made for a 'niche' market. I have never seen one.
It's a horse, based on a tabloid journalist's description.
Late 19th to very early 20th C. Similar in construction and graphics to early cigarette card albums.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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