Back in the days when I worked repairing gas pumps, they had to be government inspected and certified accurate before they went back to the...
When I was a kid and my cheapo kid wristwatch would stop working, I give it a sharp rap. Occasionally I was rewarded by seeing it run through 6...
It's a question, isn't it: do you know embroidery well enough to tell the difference between hand work and machine-made?
You might search pate-de-verre.
A clever print. I can't find another online (other than your own). I'd suggest looking for chromos of comparable size to see what prices they...
The painting might be by a guy named Victor Eeckhout, Belgian, 1821-1879. The period seems right, but the paintings I'm finding by him online are...
I found the Lois Bates book online, but the date I saw was after 2000 - probably when it was digitized. Also, while the box says Miss L Bates,...
Gerenuk (giraffe-gazelle)? I like it.
Galluba and Hofman, Germany (Ilmenau) 1897-1927
Is there a maker's mark on any of the pieces?
The few references I found online for E J Arnold & Sons dated from Edwardian times (1910-ish) to the 1970s. The only "Tea Table Song" I found was...
Is there a handle on the cup? Idle guess is early to mid 19th C.
Can't help, but very interesting. "Dinner and Tea Sets for Teaching Table Setting in Schools." I must have been away that day.
The same pricing discrepancy is true on Abebooks. I usually search highest-price-first and all I can say is that I wish the market was that...
Of course you can always ask the sellers for additional info. Many of those who do show photos use stock images. Here's a particular example:...
Be careful soaking it in water. If the decoration is cold painted, even if only some of it is cold painted, soaking it will ruin it. Peel off...
Very pretty. It might be a Meissen blank decorated by someone else. As kentworld said, the scratch is a cancellation mark and indicates a...
Jacques Bringuier? Looks possible. ******** very possible [ATTACH]
I don't know that they're carbon prints either. It's the only process of which I am aware that uses physical layering of colors to create an...
It might be a carbon print, though, according to this article, the dating is a problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_print The only...
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