I think you may have two symbols that I have on my demitasse coffee cup in my thread....
You have copper showing through on the back and it looks like "EP" marked which would suggest electroplated. You might like to click on the full...
"Demi-tasse" - That's the name I've been trying to think of instead of "iddy biddy". Found the first symbol in gotheborg.com but couldn't see the...
Found a lonely little coffee cup and saucer for $2 in an op shop with what I think is a Japanese mark on the saucer. The first symbol seems to be...
I'm beginning to suspect this is either a rich religious tourists slide show to show off to their friends when they got back or a commercial...
Funny how you can look at something over and over again and miss the bleeding obvious. Did I say "two ladies"? OK One rather heavy lady and a...
Has anyone noticed the leftmost camel seems to be missing it's head???:D
OK! I'm having a confusing day today. If I turn the photo around and read the @%#%$^ text it says "Marriage Ceremony - Cairo". mumble mumble...
Picked this photo up among a bunch of early magic lantern slides. Thought it might be some tourists on tour but it seems to be a little ornate for...
Meet Bert and Ernie my two cherubs. Had some fun trying to figure out what this was made of. First clue was some casting lines on the toes...
AJ This website seems to date it somewhere between 1890 and now. At least the earliest date is known....
Great catch AJ. Thank you. Cheers Stephen
I think this vase is either a very cheap 1970s knockoff or a very cheap 1920s export vase. It looks like a blind kung fu apprentice applied the...
Whilst searching for dating info on numerical styles I stumbled on this Wikipedia section on architectural styles. These have probably been linked...
I'm having trouble with the high quality mechanism and very low quality exterior. The crudely carved mermaids, the badly painted windmill and the...
Seriously purdy! Strange that somebody went to all the trouble to make such a nice clock and not put their name on it. Might be an idea to unscrew...
The instructions are correct. When you suspend the item in the water on a piece of string you displace water upward against the atmospheric...
There is a cheaper (than X-ref) method of determining if something is solid silver. It's called a "precious metal verifier" and it measures the...
"All glass should see the sun" I'm in please. Cheers Stephen
The recipient of this trinket box had better be a stamp collector or the conversation could go along the lines …. No dear I'm not suggesting you...
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