I'd say it is possibly an amateur job in a pseudo medieaval style which does not in any way resemble an early binding.
San Toy were small cheap cheroots that would probably fit. 'Oversize' cigarettes came in in the 1960s as far as I remember.
What on earth makes the seller state so firmly that it's English Maybe that's where the seller bought it? We do have junk from all over the place...
They could be from the WWI period, there should be a maker's name on the blades up near the handle.
Stamp cases were typically stamp sized. Over the years I have had many match book holders, in materials from copper nickel to silver and I have...
Match book holder, try one in it. So no older than matchbooks.
Looks like an architect's 'artist impression' for a client.
The CCCP is the equivalent of USSR in Cyrillic. It is a souvenir miniature samovar. The label is the sales receipt, it appear to have cost 9...
For the ebay glasses $60 sounds about right. They may have fetched more if offered internationally.
Gold plated, or more usually called silver gilt, or vermeil if it is more than a thousandth of an inch thick.. No way of getting tarnish that even.
However large the house there are only so many walls, and filling one or more with clocks can meet some resistance.
Glad it worked, long distance clock advice does depend on the advisee being reasonably clued up already.
Looks to be pressed metal imitating 19th C Dutch works that imitated earlier figural 'rustics at play' jewellery and small objects.
1965-70 should be near enough for farmwork.
For military sketch maps, so they all agree which way is north.
Le Roy is just archaic French for Le Roi, like ye for the, but it is not a piece from a period when Le Roy (the ancestor of the name Leroy which...
[IMG] Too plump for starvation, she died of indecent exposure.
It's George III, but looks a tiny bit wrong. But the other marks look OK No town mark was not uncommon and London is assumed which makes it 1817....
It looks more like a shallow bowl than a plate and would sell best as a fruit bowl rather than a plate,if possible. It's early 20th C silver,...
If not used for phone wire it could wind up and store electric fences.
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