Nice! Scottish?
Did you test these for bakelite, if they're really heavy? Not all amber is light, and copal can weigh a bit. That's an old clasp, so I'd get out...
Greetings. A lot of us have Photobucket stories, few of them happy ones.
I'd jump all over that writing box. It's definitely olive wood, and you can't get big pieces like that any more; that writing box might be...
Those look like mountains in the South China Sea, down near Viet Nam, so I'd vote Chinese too. Ha Long Bay - just looked the proper name up.
That looks legit all right. I googled it and found more gold wedding bands by the same unknown manufacturer. Scotty must have beamed the factory...
KP generally denotes plumb gold - gold content that's smack on whatever karatage it's marked. American manufacturers are allowed a bit of leeway...
...and bought junky souvenirs The second one is something she got for Christmas five years ago. The man's father was a collector who bought 1980s...
Normally Staffordshire figures are tanking these days too; they go for pennies when they used to sell for pounds. Except one I sold years back...
I'm wierd; I like that upholstery. It looks like it belongs on those chairs. I bet they were orange originally, or blue-green. If he really...
It looks like motion sickness to me.(LOL)
I wouldn't be surprised.
[fingers crossed]
They're probably perfectly good chairs, just not what went with the table. I'd give them a divorce and get some nicer ones and use those as...
It has a mechanism underneath for adding leaves, for certain. No clue if it still has them, but they're not in the table already. These were...
Indian. Bone. My guess on dating is square in the 1980s. Beyond that..dunno.
The sterling ones are generally for professionals, but a serious amateur would want one too. Around here repair shops are few and far between.
Welcome Brian! Too bad you weren't where I live a few years ago. Between the Halloween blizzard and the hurricanes that blew through,...
OTOH, if these are unplayable, the scrappers will love 'em if nothing else. Sterling flutes aren't cheap, so it might be worth selling them as is...
Those are ornamental for sure. If you want to use them for decoration and not for resale, pay whatever you want. For resale $10-20 each is more...
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