That is a fine quality trunk. You do not see many as good. The UK market is keen on them right now but I have no idea how the US market is. They...
It's pretty modern, and that child looks really unhappy. It's a picture to make you feel a bit worse every day.
With ebay banning Golliwogg items, I can see them really wetting themselves to ban that one. I do suspect it is not all that old and designed to...
Moving the figure to a well lit position and not shooting into the light would help you take a decent picture of the object. In the grey haze it...
It looks fairly modern to me.
It does look like a late 18th C top on a late 17th C base.
2 might be a coincidence, seven begins to look like reproductions.
It looks uncommonly good for something younger than I am.
Occam's Razor.
Fair enough. It just seems a shame after what seems to be fine work that it should end up in my odds and sods bin.
What is paste wax?
Pffft. I want the Paul Storr one. But I must admit the thing looks pretty good quality.
I can see how a mock pendulum might jiggle behind the barred 'window' but it really does look like a winding crown. I doubt if the watch is not...
I'd say not earlier than the 1970s. It's worth what it's worth to someone to use it. The leather would be good in a bondage dungeon. The rubber...
The fine crosshatching around the bee is worthy of a better metal. That's the only silver plate I have seen in a long while that would not end up...
I see I have been lucky up to now. Not Pooh Bear, I hope?
In all my vast experience of wholly overspecialised utensils I have never heard of a honey ladle, but I suppose the bee is the clue. I must admit...
Niello is a sulphur blackening process in silver, this is actual metal inlay, albeit very thin. I suppose I could try polishing and re-blueing the...
I use it as a term of affection. If an English man calls you something polite, he dislikes you.
No, the winding would be with the usual wristwatch style button, and you can see the thin stem it screwed onto on the left of the middle of the...
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