PS I am thinking of the old typewriters more as boat anchors than 'valuable antiques' :-)
Some of you with long memories will remember that late last year I posted a bit about a house clearance I hoped to do, where an old recluse had...
Fid , I suspect these Blaeu maps are from a later atlas as the text is French not Latin.
This is Venice before it became all built over. The fact that the map language is Italian suggests that the French publishers were using earlier...
Good plan. They do look genuine but the age is moot, they could be from an 18th C atlas as early plates were reused often in later editions and...
The pictures are really bad, well underexposed and I can't do a lot with cleaning them up. [ATTACH] They are pages from a French atlas, this...
Looks good.
The market term is 'Yesterday's antiques'. The big market driver is people buying stuff to fill their new homes and now minimal seems to be the...
Lumpy furniture like that is dead out of fashion now. Bear in mind the owner will probably be glad to see the back of it.
It's a starter kit for those generals you see on TV with 8 or 10 rows of medal ribbons. The first few rows are probably from summer camps and the...
I will post pix when I re-figure out how to resize my photos...I sometimes don't like my iPad. How difficult would it have been to include a...
A picture would enable some sort of an answer. If they were earlyish QEII notes he may have saved the 'Devil's Head' variety of the dollar.
I wonder what they would charge to send the item to me for onward transmission?
The could sent by courier for 18 to 20 pounds. That price is insane.
Made by some men in a shed somewhere.......................
The provision of an ice guard means it post dates domestic refrigeration, hence fairly modern.
THe comments about the poor clock market are accurate. Unhappily what I mostly have is clocks. The classic clocking in clock or time clock is a...
Talking about af, just back from a week on the Norfolk Broads in this vintage 1950s mahogany cabin cruiser. Shattered. My mind is far younger...
I cannot see what is in the little boxes but it could be for jewel settings. The picture is a bit overexposed, losing detail. You camera has...
Please do nor start taking it apart. No good will come of it, letting someone who refers to 'the gears' anywhere near the movement. Unless the...
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