I don't know what the US practice is but British women (possibly not now but up to recent times) have a handbag which usually contains a huge...
Looks like a run of the mill coin purse which would go in a lady's handbag that just happens to have been made with a handle, possibly to make it...
Foxing is a brown mark made by bacterial activity in some forms of paper. I have some 1870s editions of Jules Verne in the shed, but they are...
http://www.biblio.com/book/tour-world-eighty-days-verne-jules/d/210860983 Late 19th C, well away from the first US edition,...
Search for 'black basalt' if you want the black form of jasper ware.
Can you find similar marking on WWI aircraft? By the 1940s Hollywood had invented the culture.
Looks like bone to me. I can see what you are seeing but side and end on I'd vote bone.
If they 'do exist' how does he know? Divine revelation? Even the reporters whose fanciful tales of the old west made up most of the stuff they...
Notches on a weapon can indeed refer to kills. As they say on Wikipedia, 'Citation needed'
The idiot copywriter uses revolver as a synonym for pistol, but I suspect that the items were made not far from the time of the ad. 16th C is of...
I'd say an out of period copy rather than a fake. Modern display pieces are not fireable, but looking at the prices of much more complicated but...
I found a Sears Roebuck database but you need an ancestry.com subscription to access details. It does seem the gun was supposed to be fireable,...
I agree that the porcelain embellishment is identical to late 19th C French clocks, so it is almost certainly French and also converted to an...
Where did you find it? Maybe I can do something.
That is an interesting ad. Any chance of a close up (readable) of the flintlock picture.
I actually like Martin Bros stuff. The birds had a brooding intensity, this thing exhibits what might be called 'negative artistry', it actually...
Animal cruelty, it's what Britain is famous for. This depicts the common practice of overloading horses. It also depict cruelty to innocent clay,...
Yes, spill holder. Every mantlepiece used to have one. When I was a lad you could still buy the bundles of spills. Although I am sure most of...
What's that white circle in the picture? Is there no ramrod? [IMG]
The bayonet is genuine enough, no doubt about that, if not very valuable. The flintlock pistol is no duelling pistol and it looks as if it may be...
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