I can't read the writing but that looks like a copyright symbol so it can't be all that old. Could you post a slightly larger picture?
Look up Bezique, a card game. It is a device to help keep score.
[IMG] Looks like a reasonable buy to me. What can you buy nowadays for that money, that won't be firewood in 10 years? Shifting it to your place...
I have no idea about the potter, of whom I have never heard, but your BIN price is so much above the lowest bid that as a buyer I'd assume you had...
I started collecting in the 1950s aged about 12. It was not long after silver 3d bits and farthings (1/4 pennies) more or less stopped...
I have cattle rib bones for removing dents in silver. I rub rather than hammer. The thing about bone is that it does not scratch the silver.
[IMG] You can edit your post to use full size instead of thumbnail images, it makes comparisons a lot easier. I suspect it is Victorian style...
[IMG] THe back says more about a violin than the front. A picture of that taken in daylight would help.
I do not think it is English.
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Lorinery (it would help if I did not mis-spell it) is bits of horse tack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Loriners
The reason I mentioned leather is that I have seen similar at the local Walsall Leather Museum. The midlands town of Walsall used to be the...
This is what happens to fine wood furniture too often nowadays. They get out the paint tin and call it restoration. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Beautiful...
I see some style similarities (hardware, the windows, maybe even the top decoration) to Jugend (nordic interpretation of art nouveau) style...
I suspect it is from the so called Sheraton revival period around 1900, upholstered with an appropriate Regency stripe. [IMG]
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Snatch his hand off with the money. I am surprised teachers have that much to spend.
It is also helpful to specify where you are, approximately. A dead duck in Nantucket might be uber-chic in Chicago. But it is true that large...
They could be for leather work, use the outer edges to score a line, use the shears to cut along that line. They should be meaty enough to cut...
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