Let me say right off, I know next to nothing about woods and am horrible on dating such things from pictures. The exterior style of this box as to...
Just going to venture a guess, but doubt it matters one way or another for this incense burner in such ill condition. It might be an iron Japanese...
Taking a closer look at the brightened pic Aquitaine/Sue edited, I don't think the glass pattern is Bruce's "Grape Band." I now think it's the...
> Would any of you know if the design of the brass fitting in the middle was also widely used between them all or would they have been company...
Welllll, that glass pattern isn't "Frosted with Clear Bar." The Clear Bar doesn't have that design in the bar. I'm not sure if that design are...
Here are a couple of examples of the wide brass shoulder/plate collar like on your lamp. Note that one of them has a patent date of 1867 and 1878....
The pictures aren't in the right angle for IDing this lamp. It certainly would help if you could post a picture of the lamp straighten on at eye...
Here are a couple of sites with Chinese Export Silver marks: http://www.925-1000.com/chinex_marks.html...
> Plus, I haven't seen this book, A Guide to Sandwich Glass Kerosene Lamps and Accessories By Barlow, Raymond E., but it is available at my local...
I'm not 100% sure for can't see the font pattern clear enough or enough of it, but the pattern may be "Grape Band" by Bryce, Walker and Co. of...
Yes, I can see the impressed Haviland's H & Co mark. Like you, believe it is the "C" mark for see no signs of anything under the H & Co. --- Susan
Probably is European, but will throw in another thought. With that brim, the hat has a definite cowboy, Stetson, look. He may be holding a...
Juli, I must have been writing my 2nd reply when you posted. Looks like we were both right. You with the introduction of Eurasian boars and I on...
Just did research finding like Savy that the Russian and Eurasian wild boars were introduced in the late 19th century; however, wild boars were...
"1890"!!! Hmmmmm.... Wild pigs have been in the Americas since the Spanish 1st set foot on these shores. They brought pigs with them. Many of...
Boy, this is a hard order to fill for like Mill Cove has pointed out, there are and were many Mayfair related hotels. Probably the best known...
Rhiw..., love the pic with all those copper luster[tre], or lusterware of some type, creamers/pitchers/jugs and pewter, pewter, pewter. With your...
>I think I need to start selling silver smalls to Oz.< :hilarious:
As Mansons said this is after 1968 Italian silver. The silver content is 800. The label says in Italian: Argentiera, Regali Bomboniere =...
Daniel & Arter were silversmiths in Birmingham in the late 1800s to early 1900s, as Baker said "late 19th C." They worked in silver, brass,...
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