The more I look around, the more лф5 I've found. They all appear to be a number like an inventory number. I've seen them along with лф4, лф5, лф6...
Here's a set of Russian enamel forks with the same лф5 mark....
That small mark may also be a maker's mark. It appears to be Cryllic letters лф5 = LF5 At the moment I don't know whose mark this is or if it...
At that height probably like others have suggested brass alter trumpet vases used in a chapel, funeral home, etc....
You're welcome. Here it is on the opensalts website. Adobe Acrobat file. 3rd down: http://www.opensalts.net/guernsey.pdf --- Susan
Sorry, Spring, missed your latest posting as I was writing mine and editing the pic. I do agree the papal cross is 3 barred, I just thought the...
>The first picture is one of the Popes named Celestine (Celestinus) - There were 5 of them. Figuring out which one might be possible if you can...
I have ponder over these engraving also with no great luck. First of all FIN may be found on French, Swiss and Belgium pewter in one form or...
New. Heacock & Johnson's 5000 Open Salts, p. 61, under the section "Reproductions and Contemporary Salts," figs 915-921 are 7 pics of these salts...
The original Menorah was 7 candles. A Chenukah Menorah is candles. http://unitedwithisrael.org/what-does-the-menorah-symbolize/ --- Susan
>They didn't want anyone to know they had a Japanese vase during the war.< So true!!!! Most Americans in the 1940s didn't want anything Japanese....
>Does anyone know enough about the streetlights in brooklyn in this era?< I had thought of that earlier, but really couldn't pin them down. These...
Your Mom must have been a petite woman. How uncomfortable for her! I'm sorry, Bev. I had an "irresistible impulse," shades of Anatomy of a Murder....
I also think the flag draped over the lectern is of the US Episcopal church. The church's flag is white with a red cross and a St. Andrews type...
>Ah so not so much a "chamber" stick as a moveable hurricane candle.< I suspect so, but they weren't called hurricane back then. I would...
>I'm just guessing that there should be a snuffer that sits on the snuffer shaped holder. All my snuffers have a long handle on the side so I...
Hmmm.... Okay, with no such label on yours, scratch the Argand lamp theory. Gosh, I'm still bothered with the useless snuffer. That other one with...
Hold on!!! That Bright label on that other supposed chamberstick, their shape and that useless snuffer have bothered me. I Have now searched...
Should have added that the brass label on the HE & Co. chamberstick was BRIGHT & CO (LATE) ARGAND. I'm not familiar with that company; however,...
Here's one identical in style to yours with a different pierce design, but having the same maker's marks of Hawksworth, Eyre & Co. It has a brass...
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