The Martin brothers would be proud of your owl. I think it is remarkable. Well worth splashing out a bit more than your comfort zone. This may be...
They look like two routine bud vases with to coincidentally sized other pieces, since the etched Victoria is totally out of style with the...
The wood might be iroko, it's a cheaper teak substitute, very distinctive smell when worked (sanded, sawn or planed) but it does look quite...
Porcelain and pottery are made from different clays and you don't make porcelain thick or glaze it heavily as it rather loses the point. I must...
Just what I was thinking, wrong Albert. I doubt if there many women in high society who were not intimate with 'Bertie' at some time. And...
Greg and I (apologies if I have missed someone) have been posting references to antiquers.com on ebay board threads in the middle of Antiques...
The 1920s were the most prolific period for napkin rings, they are one of those table gadgets that came and went with fashions in eating styles....
Not dissimilar to the 17th C. puritans wrecking medieval churches or the Taliban destroying the great rock Buddha. Well, from where I am...
Guns and Ammo?
One good thing about it is that it would make a diabolically difficult jigsaw puzzle. I occasionally buy old jigsaw puzzles, and then use the...
The Royal head duty mark was dropped in the 1880s. It reappeared on a couple of occasions with two heads as a Jubilee mark.
The word armoire seems to mean anything from a wardrobe through a display cabinet to a dresser, but construction where appropriate in sections,...
I have never heard of a knock down armoire. Was this a 19th C IKEA for the covered wagon trade?
I do use a watchmaker's file, I suppose not everyone has one handy so may be thinking of something like this bastard [IMG] file.
Terry, I tested the ruby pendant and bale with 14k acid putting it right on the piece near the top where the bale meets the finding on the pendant...
The big clue to the age of the spoon is that the marks are what would then have been the back of the spoon, because the 18th C table was laid with...
it seems impossible to cancel a reply. If I don't post it, it just reappears when I look at a thread. So this is a non post
I can't speak for the US market, and working or not and the type of escapement are important, but best case is 'not very much value', topping out...
In Britain they would fetch metal value at auction. It's the bits you don't want to keep for yourself that no one else is very keen on either....
It does appear to be late 18th C or Regency, I could not hazard a guess to value in the US market. Here I'd put an auction estimate of £300-£500.
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