There are plenty of single-handle Gladstones (the one I owned was a single-handler) you just gotta be patient and search. Trust me, there's NO...
The good thing about gladstone bags is that they're pretty cheap (or at least I have found them to be so). I owned one for years (until I sold...
Documentation, paperwork, provenance, etc, is gold-dust for antiques of any kind. Often, that's the only way that people know the full history of...
I think it'd be cool to turn it back into a walking stick. Regarding ferrules, I have heard of people using brass pipe-fittings / end-caps as...
Absolutely definitely ivory. I reckon it may be a walking-stick handle. Rings, staples, hooks etc, on walking-stick shafts / collars were...
A set will have two sets of "flowers". One are the actual flowers, and the others are the seasons (but still called 'flowers'). The colour of the...
A traditional mahjong set, with no additional wotsits tacked onto it, is 144 pieces. A 152pc set would be American. The birds go with the...
In a perfect world, you'd remove the brass hardware, sand/polish, and refinish/stain. Not sure if you can do that with this without damaging the...
One thing I would suggest is getting the machine re-wired. Something that's on 95-100 years old will likely have very dodgy electrics by modern...
Looks like a pretty standard sewing machine from the mid-to-late 20s. The model is a WHITE "Rotary" unless I'm mistaken. The black-crackle finish...
Mahjong racks are only really a thing in American mahjong, which I don't play. Your best bet would be to search for a set on eBay or a similar...
As an old antiques dealer I know once said: "Whatever it does, it's doing it now, and TOBIAS made it". "Who's Tobias?" "Two old bastards in a...
I would be extremely surprised if this wasn't the answer.
I'm like, 95% certain it's the handle off of a pair of lorgnette-style opera glasses.
I've got three of them. One of them is my everyday magnifier which I wear on a chain. Has the original lens inside it from 1800-whatever and it's...
They're called "lorgnettes" (from the French "lorgner" or to "leer" or "stare at"). They're usually held shut by a little spring-loaded catch or...
Not really. I mean, it shows that bells like these were still used up until the late 80s/early 90s...I would guess it's still being used today.
Nominally, it was a religious school, yes, although I'm not religious myself. My brother and I went there together. But yes, it was just this...
In the senior campus, yes. In the junior campus, they still did it the old-fashioned way. God knows why...
Oh man this brings back memories. We had one similar to this when I was in school in the 90s. It was the job of a "responsible, older boy" (aged...
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