How about when someone says how much is that and you say 'three fifty' and they offer you a five and wait for change till you tell them that is 3...
The patent refers to lights that flash. Flashbulbs. Think pocket torch, not the more modern usage flashlight. DRP is early 20th C abbreviation...
This just dropped on me out of the blue due to a connection at the estate agents. (see posts passim.) Mostly people just advertise, and shmooze...
AF what fun but lots of work I know. Thanks for all the photos and updates so we can enjoy from afar. I will post some updates when I have them....
The clocks I have sub-contracted to a colleague of mine, there is nothing that I really want to keep. but I will save all the books on clocks...
Good idea.
I would go to the nearest divisional police station to where the house is and ask to speak to the "Property Officer" (usually ex retired coppers)...
I'd say they were 2 and 4.
Looks like a typical late 19th C. Staffordshire jug. You'd probably never find that maker, nor would it make any difference. You could just as...
The swords are real and one is a fine late 18th. C. smallsword, possibly French [ATTACH] [ATTACH] But it seems that between my first look and...
Apart from the use of the unserifed 'f' as an 's' that is as easy to read as modern French, indicating that the atlas these maps were published in...
By the time it was used by the local children, descended from bombed out Londoners with whom the expression 'Black as Newgate Knocker' originated,...
It was the prospect of this job that promoted the Great Shed Cleanup, last year. I had no idea it could possibly take so long with the lawyers....
Maybe a big wad of cash? The old man had more than £30,000 in the bank when he died. Time will tell.
I will see it is documented. As a teaser there is a locked Victorian cashbox with some unknown something in it.
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Possibly a 'pillow book' figure but probably a recent copy or something in the style of.
It is also a good plan to include a picture of the whole object or at least the whole head. forgotten Bamboo like material is probably rattan....
Unhappily they are still as dark as Newgate Knocker. I will see what I can find. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here are some bits I probably posted long ago. [ATTACH] Victorian sterling teapot, one of two. The box is interesting, I actually found a...
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