These were gifted to me yesterday by a jewelry dealer. They seem to be 20s and later paper valentines, except for the front of a birthday card...
[ATTACH] Does anyone know where this came from?
It's an enameled black maltese cross in a gold-filled wreath thingie. The dates in the enamel are 1914-1915, so it's European or maybe Aussie....
Someplace they speak German anyway; there's a laundry sign painted onto a building in that language. The images are probably tourist souvenir...
Wood fan, painted on the front. The flowers are bitty pink rosebuds. I'm guessing some time in the 1950s from the way the flowers are done....
I don't even know what to call these; they remind me of baby stereopticons or viewmasters, but they only have a single shot of people....
The blue and green ones are translucent, call it 1.25 inches in diameter. They don't feel like bakelite and don't seem old enough either. Before...
I was given one today, the embosser, in a pile of assorted junk. The rest is in piles of redonate, trade, give away, and trash. It's not all...
[ATTACH] Water can be poured into the large hole and out of the hole in his mouth. It's only about 3 inches long. I don't think it's old, but...
I've had it around for a while and it won't tell me where it came from. It's dated 1943, but beyond that...? The three little guys are random...
It's cool, and it was too cheap to pass up. To this day I still can't read the signature. Can anyone else make anything out? I'm guessing...
The image is a ginko leaf, and it was probably made to be put on a stretcher and hung on a wall. The fabric has a rough texture and raw edges on...
[IMG] Plain white on the bottom - not a mark to be had except an old $35 price tag.
I found some Basketball Hall of Famer autographs on Friday, and can't read this one. [ATTACH]
It's thinly carved out of one chunk of wood. One image is the side with an age crack. The other is the unvarnished base. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It's a little rectangle with Asian characters on both sides. It looks Chinese to me, but that's a guess. It's not even a full inch long and about...
It's nickel-plated brass and the cap for the glass end is missing. What's remarkable is the glass is still intact. It contains a dip pen that...
She's the editor anyway, and if you know the name you probably have a copy of the Larousse Gastronomique. It's huge and weighs a ton - boxed it's...
[IMG] This is dark red/burgundy plastic. I put it in a plastic baggie and into some really hot water. The smell was ... acrid. Nasty. It's...
Is this a service discharge lapel button, and if so from which war? It's so beat it wouldn't surprise me if it were from the Civil War instead of...
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