Here is the image corrected by flipping it laterally. As you can see, the mounted woman legs are now on the near side of the horse. Looking at the...
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The one honest-to-gosh photo of Billy the Kid was a tintype. The cameras used reversted the image, and that's why people got the idea he was...
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I don't find G B as initial marks on my usual resources.
Good suggestion! Done!
It's not a recent acquisition. I've been going through the pile of souvenir spoons Grandma gave me when I was a kid. I'm sorting them, and trying...
Y'all, I know this one ought to be simple, but I can't pin down the maker of this California souvenir spoon. 5 3/4 inches, 20 grams, marked C B...
One wheel for + or - diopter, and one wheel for astigmatic correction.
It doesn't look legit to me. I think it's unfortunate that, like Civil War memorabilia, these are faked and sold to the unknowing and unsuspecting.
I agree, and the appropriate parts are probably available, either original or reproduction. They wouldn't add to the value, but would at least...
Oh, they threw away a lot of things. I wasn't really privy to it all because we weren't/aren't on very good terms (estate issues, of course). I...
In April of 1913, when my grandmother was 16, she and her mother rode the train from Birmingham to Atlanta for a week of opera. I don't know what...
I went to the 1973 National Boy Scout Jamboree in Cour d'Alene, Idaho, and found out that many of the international Scouts that were attending...
As of today, according to what I can find, the melt value of 90% silver US dimes is $6.52
That would be Lauderdale Co., Mississippi. I've made a few cursory attempts to find census information, but it's in the Black Belt, and...
One of the things I inherited is a bill of sale for a slave named Fielding. I would never sell it, nor would I destroy it (as has been suggested...
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't that the first time MacArthur had been stateside since the early 1930's?
I'm certainly not an expert, but I have handled a small amount of 19th century leather horse equipment. To my eye, this has the look of the latter...
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