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The label on reel 2 has 16mm & color checked off.
That would make sense. Which countries use 830 silver? Germany, Austro-Hungarian countries? I keep forgetting. Hopefully the silver marks...
Time to go P picking: https://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Birmingham/Date Letters P.html 1889 - 1890, I would say.
The text says it has 'a quartet' of bees, so it has 4.
I love that the box is hexagonal.
Nice! In every way. Four bees makes the swarm look larger, but only 20 3-bee versions? Whoohoo!
Renell? Reisell?
Screws in hinges are slotted, not phillips, so has a bit of age to it.
What an appraiser does: get enough information about an item to be able to describe it accurately; if she has any relevant reference books, check...
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As INH noticed, not just the same mark, the same model bookends. They look like 1964.
But Synchro doesn't have your stash & spent time Dremmeling to suit (& taking supercilious abuse), which, by Cosmic Law, means seller would find...
Chrome seemed very modern then & the trend was toward modern & away from traditional.
The 2 look significantly different from one another to me, although both ES with a double line through. Thomas' (Welcome, Thomas) is older in...
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@SYNCHRONCITY You do know that the only way the seller was going to find the key was if you made a new one, don't you?
The careful notation about when seen & when painted and the one about calling on Mrs. Banning make me think painter was a she.
Call & see, I think.
No idea if thee details matter to this debate, just things I notice. The shape of the crown has already been mentioned. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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