I'd leave them undisturbed, it is a modernish decor item. Possibly a souvenir from Cyprus.
I did say scribed, written with a sharp point, rather than scribbled. You can peel off a sticky label, but all you can do with a piece from...
Business liquidators and local auctions are always selling filing cabinets. The price is often almost paying you to take them away. I think...
Some blokes in a shed.
The scribed marks on the base are a retailer's letter code for the price, stock number plus so many shillings and pence, derived from a ten letter...
check out 'burin'. An engraving tool, but the handle looks a bit inadequate.
I'd say it is worth putting a new battery in it. Things can become 'antique' frightfully fast nowadays.'' BTW, this refers to the watch, not the...
Technically yes, but as a ninth printing and being a fairly modern book, I just class it as a secondhand book. Of course, the print runs may have...
Women can go bald too. They are usually a bit self conscious about it as it is uncommon and considered unsightly.(Mainly by women as far as I can...
Not that simple. Coin folk would say you can 'conserve' it but a lot of what non coin folk would call cleaning is taboo. The olive oil soak is...
Don't even touch the surfaces, pick it up by the rim or with fine cotton gloves. Polishing it would make its value about that of scrap silver....
I agree, I'd hang onto it unless you are in imminent danger of starvation. You could post it on the Coin Talk forum for more specialised...
[IMG] Looks a bit like the Jungfraujoch. Switzerland was popular with Edwardian travellers, till the First World War put a stop to casual...
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You are sooooo bad, Afantiques (and on Terraspirit's first day to boot) The joke was pretty obvious, but it was simply the truth. I really did...
I had a book on Palmistry once. It was very handy
I think you had a president whose only correct opinion was a dislike of broccoli. Unless posterity shows he really mean Cubby Broccoli.
The watch top left is English, and will have a silver case, possibly a fusee movement. The one on the right may be an original Roskopf, and the...
Pipe cleaning tool?
I think coin silver. Easy enough to check for silver, anyway. Smell, taste, look, bendiness and ring do it for me.
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