It's a lovely thing. A flashlight or torch like this wouldn't date much past the 1920s. Vest-pocket stuff has been popular for ages. They were...
Yep. Pocketwatch key.
There's quite considerable staining and wear inside the mortar and loads of strike-marks on the pestle. That didn't get there overnight. So I'd...
They look like brackets that hold lightbulbs & shades on lamps.
AF is right. I'm always very hesitant to believe people when they say they have something that was made in the 1940s. The 40s and 50s were times...
A considerable amount of research online has led me to believe that this may be a Middle Eastern (or at least Mediterranean) mortar and pestle...
I love old steamer trunks. Smaller trunks would've been used on early automobiles, larger trunks would've been steamer trunks, I believe.
Let's be clear here. You can press BOTH rings into hot wax, but whether or not that's their intended purpose, is another thing.
According to my experience (I've been selling antiques as a hobby for about six months now)... a. What is selling? Practical stuff that people...
A signet ring comes from the latin Signum meaning "Sign" (from which we get "Signature"). They were usually cast in intaligo, so that the seal...
Well, they took one look at 'em and said they couldn't fix it and that it couldn't be fixed. I'm gonna try a second shop and if they can't do it,...
It's Chinese tradition for children and unmarrieds to be given money on Chinese New Year, and during weddings, in red envelopes, to wish them good...
I've just discovered that this bell is actually meant to be TWICE as loud as it already is! It's got TWO clappers inside it. Unfortunately, only...
You may be right :)
I've no idea. I had to do a fair bit of loosening, tightening and rejigging of it, but I did eventually get it working properly. It's quite a...
Congratulate me. I successfully sold them, case and all, to a friend :)
These opera glasses sat in my local antiques shop for YEARS and YEARS and YEARS and YEARS and YEARS and YEARS. From the very first day I went in...
[IMG] I bet most of you have never seen something like this! Most of us know desktop/counter bells as the kind which you whack with the palm...
The one I have once had some very nice decorations on it. There's rings on the inside of the base. There's rings on the outside, going up the...
I've had dates for these things thrown at me, everything from 1680 to 1880, so they're not easy to date. I'd say this is 18th century. It's had a...
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