It was a weekly summary of St James's Gazette. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27s_Gazette The ad says "2 Magnificent Coloured Plates",...
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Can't say I've ever seen that before.
Then I don't know. Maybe checking the paper for a watermark would help. Is the company still around? Can you ask them? Or whoever it was who...
Here it is as a coin bank: [ATTACH] I wonder which came first?
And I'll add my name here - just to make the list longer. It's cold. If I win on Sunday, can you please send it today?
I'll jump in here as well.
I'm in.
Sure you're not thinking of The Thing from the Addams family? You threw a switch on top and then a hand came out of the box, turned the switch...
It's not something I would worry about.
Sarah Bernhardt had a snake bracelet [IMG]
Stylus, I would think. Lots of glass pens out there. [ATTACH]
I think yours is a reprint. You can see an original here: http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?obj=27182 If you zoom in on the image, you...
So I can legitimately say "I had Utopia in my hands, and let it go."? I've never watched "Sound of Music". I have seen "The Gazebo" with Glenn...
Based on those links, I would guess that this was Utopia. The box shown for "Utopia" seems to be the same etch as this, while the floral sprays...
Thanks, Greg. I'm not at all familiar with Paden City. That name would never have occurred to me. Not the most romantic name for a pattern, is it?
This was ID'd once, but I didn't make a note, so I have to ask again. About 7 1/2" long and just over 1 1/2" deep. Etched with flowers around a...
Cast iron is fairly brittle. If it were used much, I think there's a good chance the handle would break. (Probably one reason there aren't more...
If it sold for $38.50 in 2000, it would sell for $3.85 today. No matter... I've tucked it into my china cabinet. Where else to keep a cast iron...
Today was my once-a-month trip to a thrift store, and I found this cast iron gavel, 9" long, seems to be one-piece casting, weighs about 2 1/4lbs....
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