Some of these estate sales people no very little about antiques but they know to look up somethings. I have a local man that has run estates for...
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Welcome . My daughter lives in Seattle with a 3rd generation woodworker /engineer.
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Thanks for correction.
One way to tell if more modern cloisonné is by how close together the "clouds" are. The older tended to be more detailed.
So I am not the only one using Sears catalogs for identification:joyful:
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the plastic plug would indicate not too old.
Welcome Zinovia. Love your name. "Life of Zesus"
I some times use a needle inserted into the knot and use that to "guide" the knot close to the bead. Keeping the needle in the knot keeps it from...
Does the bottom screw off?
My money is on Talcum powder for a dresser set.
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welcome. good place to start.
I have a set of bronze from Thailand with spoon just like that.
Here in Missouri We use to go to two auctions a week of good stuff. Now some of the auction houses are down to 1 0r 2 a month. Most people are...
I think I read somewhere that 1 oz of gold could gold plate 10,000 earring. One reason for gold guilding on military buttons is they don't...
We would call the one with the punched Tin a Pie safe here in Missouri.
The age of the subject in the picture would not indicate age. There are a number of Busby watercolor artists but I was not able to see the...
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