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The grocery store is an Occasion.
I was idly looking through an auction (local) that's going to be too spendy for me and a lot that says it's four 14k cameos - actually three...
Holy California Dreaming about their prices, and of course it helps if someone's looking.
Putting one foot in front of the other?
It's been done. Looks good when it is.
You could find that one at 2AM!
I'd have gone straight for the choochoo too. My late dad was a rail nut, and the coal lump doesn't fall far from the clinker pile.
If it was American I'd think 19th century. They're still being made here, and it's hard to guess about the real age. That said, it's begging for...
Just as well it happened after Dec 5; St Nicholas would be bankrupted paying out 150 years' worth of candy and toys for all of that.
Mudlarks are forever fishing those pipes out of the mud on the Thames embankments. I think they were everywhere.
It's a fun painting - clay pipe and a pint and a happy face, but I wouldn't pay that much unless I had a bar to hang him in.
If all else fails, use them as worry stones. Your thumb will turn black, but skin acids take tarnish off of silver. Wash your hands and good-bye...
It's a better guess that CH is a maker's mark, but weirder stuff has happened.
That one looks better.
CH is the country code for Switzerland - Confederatio Helvetica or close enough. I have no idea if that's related.
I hope it wasn't the hyde of the Nauga, although such hydes were sometimes used in purses of the era.
If asked, it's dinosaur hide. You killed the velociraptor yourself on an off Tuesday before breakfast.
Sure can. They get lost of broken often. There's a market.
I was raised by a rail nut into live steam. That meant oil lanterns. I honestly never knew there was such a thing as too many oil lamps. Clean...
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