Moe, Larry, & Curly? sorry - I am unable to control myself.............. Thank goodness this is still allowing me to edit! I wanted to...
To me (who knows nothing) it appears that the handle of a hand mirror or other vanity implement was "married" to a bell..................but that...
Pretty pattern! We always referred to them as seafood forks, but then again we had some weird names for common things, so.......................
Yeah, he WAS once a bit more menacing...............but he lost my respect in that respect when he made the musical Oliver. He was the most...
I'm old and got plenty of vices. Whatcha wanna know? Oh, wrong subject, sorry!
The term "stud box" is so ingrained that even the large (12" by 8" by 4"), triple layer box I use to house my collection of personal jewellery I...
This is another case of "But we DID see that", and some of us assumed that everyone did. Some of us are a bit to confident and...
I probably should have updated my archaic vocabulary and said cuff links, but for some reason I find it difficult to "be like normal people"....
If it were lined I would suggest a gentleman's stud box....................
Oopsy! That pattern looks familiar...............let me check my drawers and I'll get back to you..................unless I get side...
"Civilized" comes to mind..............
Cheese! When waxed it IS usually with red wax, and with a ladle this would probably be a convenient size, so that makes sense. It would explain...
While I can see situations where a large quantity of sealing wax may have been necessary in certain situations, I think this is just too large and...
I still get an autoclave from this - possibly for small dental tools or scientific instruments.
Is there a chance that this is not originally designed for sealing wax? It appears very impractical and I'm not certain that a small spirit lamp...
Yowza! It didn't appear that deep/thick. You will be able to pen any number of missives before that is ready for use! Ah, but you have a nice...
It reminds me of an old autoclave! I thought the form was familiar, but couldn't place it immediately.
Isn't that a clever little contraption! I could think of a dozen uses for it in contemporary life life as well if I gave it a bit of thought! Its...
If memory serves, these were also very popular in duty free shops in West Indies/Caribbean. I bought not a few there through the years, because...
nice! I would date the case post-filtered cigarettes, so say post 1940, possibly later depending on what size fags it actually holds and whether...
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