I'll link to where I stole this from, but its 'style' of webpage does readability no favours. Channeling your inner "Divvy", or how to build a...
I used to buy broken up pieces as examples There is no better way to learn the character of stuff than to have study pieces that are cheap or...
Interesting pictures. The writer was a bit cautious with his comments but it's reasonable to assume comic fantasy was not in his brief.
Somed classy digging there, Susan. I was thinking at first of night watchman's clocks, but some rather simple timers for time locks seems...
Very odd clock pieces. Not in themselves, but in what they might have been used for. They just bolt onto something with the bracket at the back?...
I'd like a better look at the clock bits.
Worth waiting for, a hoard for sure..............no floor! But who knows what treasures lie in wait. You must have forgotten most of what went in...
Ally does tarnish, or at least, goes dull and cloudy. Using the right polish will produce a lot of black, seemingly from nowhere.
Nope, that's not even storing, that's collecting with a touch of entirely pardonable overflow. The doctor says, no problem there. I have just...
Found in my latest turnout, a memento mori self portrait of William Bass (1785-1864) as a corpse, with flights of angels, etc. Some damage,...
Well, what you have is a nicely modelled and cast bronze duck. It's not really antique but like most antiques there is no known maker, so the...
My first thought was modernish decor piece as well.
I had a dig into the latest room I showed and it's a lot clearer. Trouble is that there's now stuff piled in the corridor. I did find some camera...
Here's a room I might just turn out today, it's been pretty neglected for some time. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] It's not beyond hope if I...
Other peoples chaos can be inspiring as well as comforting. Do post the pictures :-) I have actually done a little sorting out since I started...
Well, when you get old enough pretty well any predictions of doom come true. Luckily, by the time something carries you off, you don't really...
it was the tabs (at the end that "plug in" used to make the electric connection), because the mercury process was a way to create the type of...
The way you know it is a period piece, everyone smokes all the time. The cigs per episode rate is about 3.4 times that of a genuine period piece...
I have a bottle of clean mercury downstairs for filling barometer tubes, and another of slightly dirty mercury from old tubes awaiting cleaning....
Over here, I am often in Hay on Wye, billed as the world's secondhand bookshop capital, in reality certainly Britain's. There are a couple of...
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