It's a nice clock. I'm guessing the mount has been re-purposed since the swans are upside down.
The American compound at the jubilee, I assume. A sub-camp within the larger camp.
Bear in mind that a "Royal connection" won't affect value unless it came from, or belonged to, a Royal.
The globe shows pre-partition India (no Pakistan), which means it can't be later than 1947. Remarkably, tomorrow, Aug 15, is the 70th anniversary...
Sure looks like it says Mettlach to me. [ATTACH]
That's a fine piece of stone.
I think windmill weights were discussed in this thread:...
If it's Endre Szasz (the designer) then the maker is probably Hollohaza of Hungary and it's probably fairly recent (last 30 years)
The ones marked Avon or Foreign are probably not worth the effort. The squirrel(?) with the chipped ear is probably not worth the effort. The...
Looks like it could be beaver. Possibly fitted with a Maillard Allie Conformateur
I haven't looked for the picture, but it's Mary, Jesus and John the Baptist. I think it's of no consequence.
There was a guy named Bill Jamieson in Toronto who collected everything from guillotines to shrunken heads. He had a TV show, but I can't find it...
I don't know anything about it, but a brief Google search references XRF (X-Ray Flourescence) machines....
What's the date on this piece? I think you are correct in that it's what the designer was going for, but I don't think the design of yours is so...
I like it, but it doesn't seem Empire or Neoclassical, though it has elements of both. I think those cabriole legs give it a lightness that is...
So fabric stores might have it? Apparently there's non woven nylon as well that has similar properties.
I want to repair an old print - tears in the paper. The source I read calls for wheat starch glue (which I believe I can make), and Japanese kozo...
I need, at most, a couple square feet of the stuff. I've never handled the material. I get the impression that it is like a sheet of plastic...
I don't know the process name (rotogravure?), but it looks like a standard turn-of-the-century mass market reproduction. I wonder if the interest...
Obviously another opus from the same hand that brought us the (pottery) Ugly Lady Cat Ballerina Thingy: [ATTACH]
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