"Quadruple plate" definitely means silver-plated. Common silverplate metals included pewter (sometimes known as Britannia metal), and...
Hahahaha!!! Nooo! Sorry to disappoint! :P
Conical Asian Hat. Coolie hat. Call it what you will. VERY common in Japan and China and many other places around Asia & SE Asia, just because...
I don't see any evidence of hallmarks. And most European and British silver is pretty strict about that.
Thanks to everybody who was so interested in my old family photograph! Here's a blog-posting I wrote about it, if you're looking for a bit more...
Oh thanks, CD! :) Glad you like it. I update it pretty regularly (every week/every two weeks), so there's always something fun, and new, to see!!...
They were not a rich family (Damn Japanese occupation will do that to a family's fortunes), so something like a family snapshot, done...
Thanks. I'm very glad to have it!!
Not exactly an 'antique' as such, but it's from around 1950. This is an old family photograph of my grandmother's generation. [IMG] Granny is...
After two weeks of EXTENSIVE cleaning, the telescope is finally functioning...almost...as good as new. There's still a slight bit of tightness in...
Sorry. Where did I pick *what* up?
Chinese foot-binding was actually outlawed in the 1910s, I believe, when the new Chinese Republic was established and the fall of the Qing Dynasty...
Thanks for the birthday wishes, everybody! I'm burning off the calories from dinner last night by cleaning my birthday present! This thing is...
I've looked up a number of antique telescopes online, from the same era, and of the same size and style. The barrels are either clad in leather,...
I know absolutely nothing about wood, beyond the fact that it makes pretty fires. So...eh.
All restored and cleaned to working condition (or as close to that as I can get it): [IMG] Does anybody recognise what type of wood it is?
After MUCH cleaning, oiling, cleaning, re-oiling, cleaning, polishing, cleaning, more polishing, cleaning, oiling, cleaning and more cleaning......
You're torturing me, you know that, don't you!?
If anyone here actually KNOWS anything about telescopes, could someone answer me this... Would my big telescope qualify as a Day-Night...
Just to show you how HUGE this damn thing is!! [IMG] The one at the front is 16 inches! The BIG one at the back is 39 inches!!
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