If you scroll down on this page of London silversmiths' marks you will see the ones with IW & can compare your marks with the photos.
I'm afraid that since it was a direct sale to a private buyer, we are not going to know.
Since I can't have the clock, 1980s or not, I'll settle for the ammonite fossil: [ATTACH]
When I Google 'regency silver tea set' I get a mix of images. Some are very spare with angular handles, almost art deco, & some are very ornate,...
Neither had I, with that meaning. I only knew clabbered. With the number of taps it took to convert a restrained set into this, it has been...
If he ever meets a Roomba, they may run away together, like the dish & spoon.
Know all will be relieved & pleased, as I am.
Knew it reminded me of something bristly - that's it! :joyful:
I think you should use it as your avatar here. Gee, think the Blenko group will let you in? :hilarious:
Fer sher.
But don't trust anything it whispers in your ear when you're out treasure hunting. I'm sure it has ulterior motives. (Is anything but a motive...
D'accord.
Great find. Why do you think there were 14 large buttons. Article at your link says a set for a man was 18 buttons (was interested to read that...
Sticker shown in last photo says China. Do you doubt it?
It's a puzzlement. The black would not be part of the same stone. Is it flat or en cabochon, like the front? Could the pendant be reversible?
you should be in bed I love snoozing, like a cat, in the middle of the afternoon, but alas, stuff to do, avoiding it playing around here. Who...
@anundverkaufen Can we tell the country of the horseman by the helmet?
Is it possible it's a monogram, maybe TH, with the T sideways?
Shawl pins have been having a revival & are popular crafts items, such as this one & this one on etsy. Not saying yours is new, just showing...
Almost certainly glass.
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