I shopped for antiques in Knowle because the people had better stuff, even the charity shops were upper crust, but I live much further west; in...
here is the same detail from one polished to the copper (at least it does seem to be copper, so some scrap value there anyway) that failed to...
Thanks for the lead. Here is a detail from my original photo before resizing. [ATTACH] which shows some well defined muscles. And the same...
This disk is very heavy and large, it is sitting on a normal sized chair. An attempt to scratch the back to see if it was copper failed, so who...
How would I make any finds if I just let it lie?
I promise to tidy another room if we could just get back to all those piles of precious junk?
Personally, I really miss the occasional insult, or attempt at it, that we had on the ebay boards, as some of you will remember I'd always adopt...
Notice the first floor access for deep snow conditions. Traditionally the cattle lived on the ground floor to heat the place.
The only silk there was from the huge spiders. :-)
[ATTACH] I could not really do anything with the photo, but they look like ordinary printed cloth curtains to me.
It's the classic alpine chalet form. It is a Swiss and West Austrian style, as noted, found in many tourist items. I have not yet had time to...
Those drapes in your photos are interesting also Could you give me some idea of which photos? I am totally curtain blind (so to speak)
When I can I will. It's not 20th C., my divvy senses tell me that :-)
The picture for this is not very good, but it's all I have for now. It is a 5 inch hig mug made of copper with slightly raised relief decoration,...
It was a bit spooky to discover the bed was still warm, till I realised the electric blanket had been on for the last few months.
Yes, same effect. It's a cousin of the old candlestick telephone, but more 'modern' and directly connected.
The theodolite turned out to be a Czech army portable artillery theodolite "Theodolit dělostřelecký vz. 34" presumably from WWII, (wonders of the...
Judging by the visible circuitry you would open a circuit by lifting the earpiece off the hook and the solenoid would probably operate a buzzer....
Oh dear......it's a plaice to put things.
Old man who died alone and was not found for a couple of months. The smell had pretty well cleared away by the time I got there. He was about 80....
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