Would you know if this was made here? Depends where 'here' is, posters come from USA, Canada, UK and continental Europe, mostly. In England I...
How big is it? Not that I know what it is but it is an essential element in an attempt to identify it.
It appears to be a mid 19th C style parlour chair.
I have never heard the term. Japanned usually painted with enamel paint, Japonaise means in the Japanese style, but never japonned. More contest...
By the way, I have by my right hand a book on coin collecting published in 1855, it is over 700 pages long and Volume II, the only one I have ,...
I started to learn to 'grade' coins with my childhood collections, simply deciding which of two coins was the one to retain. Later I learned the...
Looks like a little porker.
I have a feeling that the Union of Poles in Wales was probably a few blokes in a pub in Bangor.
The Spink auction estimate seems realistic, the other one a bit of a joke. The Spink one is about US$40 to 60 for as mixed lot of 10.
In the bank note and scripophily world specimens of any kind usually command a premium. Usually offically issued specimens are a lot scarcer than...
If no legal heir had been discovered, the state would have claimed the estate, but they'd still have sold off all the chattels in the same way,...
Something general about scripophily may be helpful, you may even find a similar bond on ebay. Just looking at completed sales and seeing what...
I really was not in it for the money (although it is always welcome) but for the hunting and gathering, the thrill of discovery, the joy of...
A car full of storage boxes of the antiques went off to the saleroom yesterday, so some should start appearing in October, the same month the...
From the look of it your Turkish bearer bond from the Istanbul water company went belly up long before the Ottoman Empire followed suit, as it...
Nothing like that anywhere in the US, for certain. Really beautiful. I don't know, what about the world's biggest ball of twine?...
I'd call it a bowl. Remember that traditional Japanese eating does not really do plates.
Peasus is the British Airborne badge, but that one looks like My Little Pony regiment. The Prince of Wales feathers may be significant as well....
You might check out whatever unit captured Pegasus Bridge in the D-Day landings.
That is a decent British Army infantry officer's regulation issue sword from about 1901 to 1910. See Edward VII on the guard. You already have...
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