In the absence of any knowledgeable comments, I'll suggest it was part of a supply of pieces China brought over to sell as souvenirs of their...
Yes, could be random discolorations or... Needs to be looked at.
I'm sure it does. Silly us: all 3 pairs are about how transportation has changed.
England was an early adopter of electric streetlights, although did not start in London. Wiki: The first street to be lit by an incandescent...
Here's a seller trying to tiptoe around & get their point across photographically: [ATTACH] They don't know me, so may not trust me to be...
In the 'after' pic of the street, think the streetlights have also been modernized to electric. Time depicted & time made not necessarily the...
Am I seeing phantoms, or is there some very effaced writing on the hook on the part nearest to where it attaches? Can you tell if the wood is...
Bakers got her excellent answer in while I was typing this, which agrees with her. Pairs of pictures depicting a couple of types of travel & a...
Because if you keep digging a hole in England you won't come out in China?
When they spring back open, guessing they look like a wishbone, something like this?
I don't know about the spoons, but mint dish was my first reaction. Maybe, as you held the whole thing by the curved handle in one hand, the grid...
In size & type of brush, it resembles a nail polish bottle of today. Not saying that's what it was for, just something that needed to be applied...
From just the 2 pix, I don't feel I know enough. Where is the attached end of the leather piece attached? If not the top of the cap, is there...
I see it is marked 'England'. Is London on another side?
Maybe a compass casing repurposed as frames for reading glasses? They look handmade, & not by someone who made a business of it. Antique steam...
I had a grade school teacher who regularly used the saying the Observers use as their motto. Must have been 7 months into the school year when I...
Greetings. The hook doesn't look like it could actually hook onto anything. In what way is it spring loaded, what direction does it move & by...
Some of the ones that came up for me, using your link, do have the elongated body, sideways facing ears & attached base, appearing to be replicas...
???? Have never heard this before & can't figure out from context what it means. Please enlighten. I hate not knowing what things mean!...
I think I'm seeing Carie Belli, but it's a Google deadend. Amusingly, I get results for Valerio Belli, a big name in engraved gems from centuries...
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