Repulsive little thing, isn't it?
I think you just may have meant unripe bananas
Anybody figure they have 8 years left?
Rubber buttons? Yes.really. I wondered about that but they really are rubber. White rubber.
Revised inland postage is such a turn on, isn't it? :-)
Does excavating the shed count as finds? [ATTACH] Just 2 1/2 inches high. Solid silver animals, modernish. [ATTACH] Some ancient packaging,...
I found this tiny stick of some hard substance in a small tin with another Chinese marked stick. The fancier one has a design on the back. About 2...
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I'm growing old and fat here, waiting for 1898 to come round again, so this tiny book of the year is on offer to whoever comes out of the hat....
[ATTACH] As mentioned on another thread, I had a bit of a rummage around for an example of an ivory fan guard to show typical jointing and came...
I had a dig around and have a couple of photos that may help identify ivory fan guards although some bone ones show the same feature. This is the...
Looking on the bright side, if it did get broken it could be discarded with a clear conscience. But I think it looks too tough to make it easy...
I am now pretty sure the first one is ivory. The sticks and guards are useful to restorers to replace missing ivory inlay and bits like the thin...
Just being picky, but the plural of quail is quail. :-) Even the fastest artist can't paint eight quail as they fly past, so he had to sit there...
Certainly not British or British made, you'd get banged up in the Tower for marking something like that, clearly meant to deceive. Time to get...
Goofus? Really? It's just about the silliest brand name, if that is what it is, that I have ever seen. Barring toys for very small children.
The top one does not seem to have the tiny flecks that indicate bone. Often the guards of ivory fans will show a scarf (shallow sloping) joint at...
Try a light box. Cheapest would be a cardboard box spray painted white on the inside, with a strong light shone into it, not at the object...
The British coppers are worth as little as you think they are. Otherwise I'd not have many thousands of them :-( I'd not even wash them. Any...
Possibly almandine garnet or carbuncle.
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