>Here is a better pic of the stopper that i found some printing on the bottom. all I can make out is stopper Co.< "Gem Stopper Co." around the...
Good question, Bake. My 1st impression was a straight bottom edge also; however, with the "pointy dip" on the anchor I would think the letter...
I'm home now and looking through Hougart's The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks. I can't prove the mark is for Emma Melendez. :(...
On zooming in on this mark and inverting it, I do believe the initials are EMM followed by another letter that is probably the letter "A" making...
What are the initials in the middle of the mark? They look a little like CHM or CIM. I'm on my iPad making things a bit harder to see. Like the...
Welllll, while working on the pic, af and Terry came along with help. --- Susan
Those lions, if lions, are standing up in the Lion Rampant position rather than Lion Passant. At least the animal on the right certainly doesn't...
Here is a Capen & Molineux camphene, burning fluid, lamp with a little history on C & M and differences between camphene and whale oil lamps....
Terry, looks like Baker came up with the makers. At the moment I'm no where near any of my pewter or antique lamp books. You probably know already...
Sue nailed it. That is definitely the Dutch hexagon stamp with a Lion Passant denoting "2nd standard purity = minimum .833." As Sue said, the key...
Sorry, I'm a little late to this thread. I found FW Cooper (Francis W. Cooper) complicated to pin down as a silversmith, retailer, or both. As...
Meant to add on the above reply that there are French FF maker's marks on that link Terry gave. In the description of one of the marks a hammer is...
I haven't a clue as to the maker. I have found a couple of French makers' marks with 2 Fs, but none like this one. I think it is a tomahawk...
I agree with Don? as to being called a "Spout" lamp; however, some refer to it as a form of a "snotnose" or snotneus lamp. Snotnose lamps burned...
Interesting! Bake, spotted the cemetery records of the "Sacramento City Cemetery 1849-2000" online. No doubt you have already seen it for you have...
You're welcome. I enjoy reading historical stuff and such that reflex historical events. I have found more references on that Lake House in...
Lake House seems to have been a township of some kind 6 miles or so southeast of Sacramento in the 1860s. According to the 9/1/1860 Sacramento...
My thought also on being a toiletry box. The graduated circles would be holders for jars. Here are a couple of examples of larger toiletry boxes:...
This trunk looks very much like the Louis Vuitton's c1920 "Malle Armoire" trunks on the following website. There are 2 of them about 1/2 way down...
Bake, the real or repro link above has Van Briggle's Philodendron Leaf bowl. You need to scroll about 1/2 way down the page to the "Production...
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