Walnut. With an ebony parquetry base border. Not really Tunbridge Ware as it doesn't have enough embellishment or a lid design. Mid 19th ish, or...
It didn't become an independent state till 1992, so that's the earliest. I'd suspect the jacket is later than that, given the war. Eighties, it...
Dunno, but I think I can date it. I've a brooch of my mama's which she bought in the sixties and it has that sort of wirework setting. The clip is...
Yup, you can see the malachite is glass from the back. You do have to wonder why! @Any Jewelry - yes, the ring with the silver swirls and the...
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The bloke who sells stuff at scrap was there again. So the coin brooch was a whole 2.50 and the big filigree a fiver. Different person sold me the...
They're great fiddler things!
Oh, you tart! ;)
It's a very strange thing, isn't it.
Excellent decode, sis.
I bet that's a garnet and a green garnet. It's a bachelor button style.
It's illegal to reproduce a hallmark unless the assay office has assayed the piece. Also illegal to alter them, too. Copying the pattern would be...
Nice going.
If I saw that here? Mid 19th. Someone rebacked the mirror and you need a nice wax on that. Cracking things.
Hm. Someone was copying fairyland lustre. Britannia, anyhow.
In the UK, that would be howlingly illegal unless they smoothed over the hallmark.
That's funny, I bought it's near twin today. Sarcophagus shape on bun feet. The bowl is wrong: would have been nice fine lead crystal. Usually,...
I love old faience, be it bashed about or not. And it's almost always bashed: I'm suspicious if it isn't.
Hm. You sure that's not pottery?
I'd think late 19th into early 20th. The house looks maybe German, so perhaps Bohemia.
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