No expert but it looks like a belt driven factory sewing machine for inline stitching. Think they have made that general shape model for a hundred...
Looked and looked and all I can see is a mangy piece of metal. Tried photo shopping the image and narda. Can't see stars or multiple goddess...
+1 for glass and the bottom looks too clean to me. I'd go early to mid last century maybe even later.:bag:
Looks printed and hand coloured to me. I don't think that printing method existed in 1704 so probably Victorian era copy. I'm having second...
Thanks AJ. Good to find out about Rama and Sita.:D
I'm kinda reluctant to destroy bits of it to get a date that would only be a maybe date but I did turn it upside down and give it a thump to see...
Thanks for that. I note that most of these cloth covered nautilus shell style India powder flasks seem to be in museums. Mine seems to have a...
Definitely not for the baby then. Might explain why bidders were so interested in the lot this came in.
What am I looking at?? It clearly holds a fluid so Baby bottle? Ladies water bottle? Decanter of some kind? Suggestions as to What Where When...
Nothing rude here!:sorry: Technically they are cheek to ear not cheek to cheek. Only ever seen this cheek to cheek business on Bali masks called...
Wild guess...watch fob magnifier???:bag::bag: umm mustard seed thingy:rolleyes:
Victorian era bird bath/feeder?????
+1 I'm not seeing Schreger lines in the blank areas nor on the figures. The spiral ascending strips seem to have vertical lines not distinct...
Not an expert but that looks like a cheap gilded brass structure held together with phillips head screws and looks like it was made in the...
I was looking at the mark on the edge between the two blue smudges. Almost looks like the letter "M" and a few others. Could be just dirt though.
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Those who will know will need to see close ups of all the markings on the barrels and stocks.
Ok. What's a "winged rutabaga"?? We've got a lot of political "ratbags" in parliament but none have wings. Ahhh got it ...a winged turnip. Scuze...
I thought it was middle eastern until I saw the "depose" underneath. Can't find a JP or a PJ with my limited info but others might know.
I get the impression that it is a side mirror of a larger dressing table mirror that some one has repurposed with the hinge.
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