Dave is essentially correct. Trench whistles and police whistles were more or less the same thing. The only thing that made them different was the...
100 years old this year. My new 1915 trench whistle manufactured by the famous Joseph Hudson whistle company :) Got this in the post from a chap...
Uh...ok. Wow.
Hi Brad, Springfield, Yes, those were my conclusions as well. If I HAD to date this, my guess was the republican era of China, somewhere between...
[IMG] [IMG] Dragon wraps around five panels. 6th panel has the moon or sun or whatever on it. I think it's the sun.
Oh yeah, I forgot. It's America's birthday, isn't it?
This is a first. Never posted something here without everyone jumping in with opinions before.
Here's pre-cleaning, although I'm not sure how much of a difference it makes. [IMG] This was taken literally five minutes after I bought it....
Hey folks. Picked this today at the market. Sold as an antique brass Chinese tea-caddy. Certainly looks like one. No idea how old it is. My...
Thanks. Always tinkering. You know me.
I saw that, yeah. I was hoping someone else might know, in case the info there was out of date or whatever.
Does anybody know anything about the hallmarks on the back of this thing? They say: [J.C] [Lion Passant] [Leopard's Head] [D] J.C. is the...
Tol'ja :P
When I was a kid, there were two antiques shops down the road from my house. I used to go in there every weekend to drool at the goodies on...
The photos aren't good enough for me to tell, but I'd suspect so. Celluloid is often used as a substitute for ivory. One way to tell is the...
The crescent-hook is to fit the badge into the lapel of your jacket or uniform. I agree, it's quite ingenious :)
I have that there because I suspect I'm much younger than the average age of most antiques collectors and dealers. :P
To me it doesn't look like ivory, that's why I got suspicious. It looks very crudely done and quite thick. Ivory is expensive stuff. They would've...
It looks like very chunky ivory if it is real.
My research suggested that the silver ones might not be as rare as I thought, but still...it is silver :) And that's somethin'. And it's linked to...
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