I see a girl tortured by a monster....& a red headed horse jumping in the river to escape a fire. Then it must be by Rorschach. :-)
Could be a souvenir of a trip to Eastern Europe. Not terribly old.
Just a point, NEVER photograph anything towards a light source like a window unless you use fill in flash or are trying for artistic effect. It is...
They'd probably just be puzzling out of context. I did one on the coins board a couple of days ago (they are generally a dull lot) that would be...
Martin Silver was the Great Grandson of Long John Silver, the famous Pirate and one of his wives, Black Bess of Martinique (a name she retained...
12 by 8 inches from the poster's ebay thread. I think the decoration and exact shape may give a clue to the age, I'm thinking 18th C but it could...
I do not see the picture as being any earlier than the second half of the 20th C.
We do not have much silver plate as it's usually goes to the shed, but I have never given a second thought to putting the SP we do have in with...
We put the solid silver flatware in the dishwasher, just washing the knives by hand since they are the only pieces with filled handles. Been doing...
One reason would be blades and handles from different workshops. another, and principally, because just being stuck into the pitch filled handle...
They would have hallmarked blades if the blades were silver.
What is the natural habitat of winged mermaids?
The wood looks like late 20th.C. African 'Mahogany' rather than the original Caribbean/Central American stuff, so I suspect this is a modernish...
because on seeing these the South flooded the North with copies trying to destabilize the currency. Bit of a historical mix-up there, there was...
They look OK to me as far as I can tell from the pictures. There was a saying at the time, 'Not worth a Continental' and that reflected the...
I'd be a bit interested just for amusements sake but shipping to me would cost a bit. I sent a 'conversation' about it.
I agree, in general and the Roman looks a bit iffy to me as well. I don't know offhand if davey was quoting catalogue prices for average...
Thanks I had been looking at all the old furniture styles but they all seemed to blend together to me Around 1900, that's what they did for the...
Davey and I seem to be of one opinion regarding value. Paradoxically, the US items could do better in Europe because we don't see so many of them...
All the good makers had nice clear stamps. I suspect from the look of the thing it may be Central European. It may also be for Turkish coffee,...
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