Obviously Lazlo K Smitz and the Baltimore Ladies Jack Off Team, after his succecessful defence of the All Comer's title at Iron Mountain, in...
It's from a more innocent age, maybe 1950s. Nowadays you have a bettery isolater switch hidden somewhere else, and the whole thing comes as a...
Laugh my fanny off.......... But for the full story only a close up of that one card would inspire the tripping muse. BTW, that 'compilment',...
I could write you story for each one, heart remding or richly comical, but at $100 a time, I don't think it's economically feasible. So 50c. a...
Too modern for me
I just thought they looked like a delegation from the Addams Family, not that photographer's studios really came equipped with iron gibbets and...
By coincidence I was going to plump for Spanish Flu and 1919 because they all looked dead and propped up.
Looking again it does appear to have severe pitting, but it does appear to be the colour of silver sulphide or chloride not the green of copper...
At some stage someone has tested it for silver(the V gouges and the acid mark) I'd say it is not a British mark, no one would get away with a pre...
Why is called a rooster cupboard. And was it called a cock cupboard (like a cocked hat) but someone got a bit euphemistic?
Happy to help. I just turf out the junk from head and write it down, but it's still a ways off empty. :-)
As an afterthought, Sheffield Plate (using the term correctly, now often called Old Sheffield Plate) was the same principle as rolled gold, copper...
Just to correct evelyn's description of GF as electroplate here is a bit of an explanation of rolled gold or 'gold filled'. 1/20th GF (or rolled...
This is just off the top of my head since I have not done electro-chemistry since school, but if there are both gold and silver ions in the...
I don't see a dresser there, just a chest of drawers and a table. Both look 19th C. but only just and the chest of drawers is pretty basic. The...
The sewing table looks natural to me, but the fussy bobbin turned legs and plain top do give a married impression. However, I don't think this is...
Bottom right is a Dutch coin, probably 5 cents, maybe worth a couple of bucks in EF condition.
Wind both holes, one is going train and the other is the strike train. Wind whichever way you can, I can't remember if this model has what I'd...
I was just planning on dying and letting someone else get rid of everything.
Possibly Royal Bonn for the case, or a similar firm. The colour can only be described as 'remarkable' but it clashes nicely with whatever that is...
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