Eh shadduppayourface! IS MINE!! :o
I never said it was identical. Merely that it's the same type of dip-pen-pencil combo. These were very common in the later 1800s.
Screw that! I'll take it, crime or no crime! hand it over! I swear I'll give it a good home!!
Sorry but that's not a snuff-container. It's a double-ended dip-pen and propelling pencil. I used to have one. The scoopy thing is the ferrule for...
...for holding incense...?
I'm super-confused. Where's the snuff-container?
Ballpoint + pencil. So post-WWII 1950s/60s. Even if it is silver (?) I doubt it'd be worth a great deal of money.
You can see that I have terrible eyesight? And thanks, Johnny. Dad always said I had expensive/fine taste. As Churchill said: "I am always...
This is the first time I've seen an antique plant on this forum...
And yet, ironically, I started collecting antique optical equipment... [IMG] ...because I have TERRIBLE eyesight!! :o
Thank you :) I've been busy cleaning and oiling it all day to get the draw-tubes and the sun-shield sliding back and forth smoothly without...
Out of curiosity, I typed the address: 15, Place du Pont Neuf, Paris, into Google. I came up with this image... [IMG] Here's our chap! Roughly...
After doing more research, I have come up with a name... Jean-Gabriel-Augustin Chevallier. A French optician who, according to one article,...
My father always bullied into me, to buy the best things at the best prices. That's all I'm trying to do. I shall sell off some of my other...
"Forgive me father, for I have shopped..." "...Gee, I...dunno the correct penance for that. I suppose you could say 'Three Hail Macys'...?"...
I did. And it worked great. Mind you I used a ridiculously small amount.
Well the Brasso wasn't my idea. It was suggested to me once by a guy in an antique shop when I was asking how to clean residue off of some ivory....
Sold it locally, and doubled my money on it, so I'm very happy.
I sold the basket :P
What an adorable piece of silver!! :o
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