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I've seen these listed as scorers for bridge and whist as well as bezique - just proves (yet again) that you can't trust auction listings as a...
My lighting store has tiny spot-lights that one can wall-mount; I've put them on a wall, aimed at the cabinet so that they light up all the...
Welcome; we've had a number of threads about tools that nobody was familiar with...such as:...
You are certainly right that prices are all over the place, though.
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Brad's link has some good information, but the evaluation of violins is highly specialized, much more so than evaluating guitars, for example....
Seattle used to have wooden water mains, and Chelan WA still had some as recently as 2009: "...wooden planks are lashed together with a coil of...
I can't identify the mark, but this looks a lot like several my Mom got in Arabia around 1960. I've found them very hard to date, because 20th...
Certainly true of the transverse or orchestral flute; but the flute family is large and includes many end-blown flutes; many ethnic types of...
I'd guess that the top layer is actually copper rather than brass. I'd guess the middle layer is hardened pitch (resin). From the 1960s to the...
The style is called a corner chair, I think; that's about all I know.
Welcome! I know it is hard to deal with the kind of collection you mention.
As opposed to real jumping beans, frijoles saltarines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_jumping_bean [ATTACH]
Haven't found any photos of old ones with a track though.... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I think so too. Ken's "Sissom" signature looks very similar to my eye.
I have/had several (circa 1960). They are packed up somewhere, or I'd post a photo. Some had little faces painted on, others did not; and some...
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