I agree - storyboards for TV ad. That shape of screen went out with CRTs. If the 'shazam' was meant to be literal (and why not?), that might...
Fireplace screen?
This had been identified as a silver sestertius from the reign of Publius Septimius Geta, a Roman emperor who lasted only a very short time. The...
From Wikipedia: Prices of aluminium dropped and aluminium became widely used in jewelry, everyday items, eyeglass frames, optical instruments,...
Some modern phone cameras have "anti-shake" or "image stabilization" features. I guess you need to check to see if that feature is present and...
I think aluminum did not become a common metal until after WWII. Napoleon III had a rattle made of the stuff, which was considered very rare and...
A lot of people think that if an item is thousands of years old, it must be valuable. This is not necessarily true. Items that old do, however,...
They certainly haven't been used in my lifetime. I expect they're very brittle, but I don't see any breaks or losses.
More flotsam from my grandparents. They died in the early sixties, and these were old then. They've been kicking around ever since... antique, I...
You can tell by the holes (himotoshi) that this isn't old or functional. One should be noticeably larger than the other. The smaller hole was...
If someone with all that training painted this, he probably should have taken a different career path.
Julius Bien (monogram JBC in a keystone)
I may have shown this postcard picture of Christmas mayhem previously [ATTACH] Then I found there was a whole series, So I had to collect them...
Nice presentation.
I once had a similar cup with birds. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I took new to be after 2000, but I don't know. Here's mine: [ATTACH] You might find it searching "acorn mug".
I had one in 2012 and it was ID'd as Mosser Glass and new. It's a nice pattern.
Apparently the name is Anjer. You might find something in one of these links:...
Actually, although the shape and motif are drawn from Greece, it could gave been made anywhere (for all I know).
I believe the motif is called anthemion, and the shape is more or less Greek, so I'd guess a souvenir of Greece (or Greek made, anyhow).
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