Best we draw a veil over that ;)
Queen Victoria wedding plate, and we have a sucrier to match :) [IMG]
Possibly made by a student at a pottery class.
When the stopper comes out during tapping it always seems to elude you catching it, probably because one hand has the bottle and the other the...
I wonder how the seller is feeling after that result!! Laidlaw was gobsmacked but, to be fair, he knew he had a winner when he bought it, all...
That makes sense to me, and would allow for this to be c1920 which would be an acceptable stylistic fit.
A 19th century Adolphe Bertsch Chambre Automatique / Chambre Microscopique sub-miniature 37x37mm wet plate fixed-focus camera, serial number 229....
SIS, if the mark was in the mold, then the design is still c1880 if the impressed mark is correct for that time If this was a post WWII item then...
Despite the range of date estimates, I am not surprised that nobody went for the pre 1850 slot :) The conflicting pointers to age are why this...
You may be right, I am just unsure.
Eye cup was my first thought but I am.not sure it is. Plenty of blue glass eye cups, but onein a silver outer seems odd
Thank you SiS, like many others I really rate the site and would love to have clarification
And the reveal of the bookends of the lovely lady and the legless lad is..... [IMG] ..........the impressed mark below: [IMG] which...
Martin, first thought was that this might be a silver plate mark, but other people may know better. Edit: Joseph Rodgers & Sons maker Object...
I'll post the backstamp 4pm London time. In the meantime here is the lovely lady's legless lad :) [IMG]
Guesses are a distillation of knowledge and experience and valuable for that reason. It was my initial guess that made me decide to post this ;)
Possibly glass is vaseline, not sure.
Another method of loosening a glass stopper is to tap.it gently (!) with a wood spoon while rotating the bottle. Do it over something soft as the...
No,that makes no sense. It will be a squad number allocated to a player. In the meantime dont wash it, just in case!
Don, the reveal will, I hope, provoke more discussion.
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