As an afterthought pattern numbers seem to be more common on silverplated items.
They are probably original but of very modest value. The pictures are really too poor to derive any information from. Taking them again in better...
No. Could you be misreading 925 badly stamped or worn? If the number is clear it could be a pattern number.
I can see it is the sort of thing that any red-blooded teenage boy of any age might want to play with, maybe fire up to go kerchunka-kerchunka...
I do not think it is valuable enough to be subject to any tax and I think it is possible that it would be exempt anyway as part of your personal...
My limited experience with large numbers of a scarce item is that however they are sold, dealers soon realise that there are an abnormal number...
I'd call it a swagger stick or pace stick rather than an officer's stick. Commonly used by drill sargents
Just looking at the top of what I later realised was a longer picture, I was trying to figure out what a drunk lumberjack with a camera had to do...
19th C French bronzes were so often of animals that the term 'animalier bronzes' entered the trade lexicon....
It is a drop in seat, and probably an option for the buyer, this is factory stuff with no fixed rules, would Madam like the seat like this, this...
Looks like a routine 1930s 'antiqueish' look dining chair to me. Possibly a factory batch number, what it certainly is not is a date. Good...
Your insurance probably has a minimum value for line items (high value items) so it is probably subjectto the same rules as your general house...
I'd call it a fire surround and overmantel. You might find more comparables using the correct spelling of mantel. A mantle is a lady's cape....
I think it is just the remains of some generic puppet, and should be given to a child who has a 'My Little Crematorium' to play with.
Am I the only person who sees that as a lectern? A pulpit is somewhere the priest stands, usually elevated, and may contain a lectern.
Markings on the blade which is usually poor quality steal and the big giveaway is 'Nepal'. Anything marked with a country name is to remind the...
A tourist market Kukri, second half of the 20thC. Not usually regarded as collectable.
I think it is a reproduction of a late 17th C style flintlock, but I cannot really tell from the pictures.
I'd read 10e as dixieme, or tenth, abbreviated. More usually 10me. or even 10eme. so I am probably wrong. The date indicates Sheffield plate...
One part is a description of the style and another is the estimate of age. The only way to know is by experience of seeing lots of similar pieces,...
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