A Barsoomian thoat, if ever I saw one.
They look very foggy. The first one looks very faded.
Credit to obb who got the value pretty well spot on as well.
Just digging up this old thread to say that I put the dress in an auction and it sold today, comfortably beating its estimate of 50 to 80 pounds....
0000 steel wool has the odd property for steel of being inflammable in air. Put a match to some and watch it burn.
This is the usual thing, a layout found only on these repro clocks. I'd be interested to know what it sells for as I have one myself bought in...
On inspection, the enamel work tends to be fairly poor with bubbles and voids, and the mechanism is not all that well made.
Repro certainly, the hands are a dead giveaway.
This is calving. [IMG] What you have is carving.
Just some blokes in a shed.
Modernish Indian brassware, I'd say.
If there isn't one called 'Old Boots' there should be. And don't ignore Bearhuggers 'Old Overcoat'...
Whatever they call that thing it is a motorbike. Scooter, the body is the frame, moped, lady's bike type frame, motorbike, man's bike type frame.
Yes, it was a big thing when I was a kid.
My idea of a lovely landscape. Trees and hills just happen, this stuff needed inventing and building. [IMG]
I would if I could.
It also looks more like titanium, which is a much better metal.
Why they'd make a model that looks foreshortened and with impossible steering geometry is beyond me. It is uncomfortable to look at.
No great age, no great value. If you have a cat, it looks like a chair a cat would like a lot.
Cobblers have various funny hammers,and the middle one looks fit for metal bashing.
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