I gave the lamp a light cleaning yesterday. The enamel is red and GREEN. God there was so much grime on there!! Haha!!
Pipes are relatively easy to find. Lamps are almost impossible, from what I've seen. What do your pipes look like?
The chimney came with the lamp. I don't think it's original, but it fits well enough, without wobbling or jiggling around. The original chimney...
It wouldn't be glowing very much!! They weren't really designed to provide useful light. The point of an opium lamp was to provide a heat source...
I completely forgot I owned this. I don't even remember how I got it. I stumbled across it today in my collection while I was sorting out some...
I WISH THAT WERE TRUE!! If that was so, I'd be buying antique silver by the BUCKETLOAD.
Reading the opening post to this thread gave me heart-palpitations. That kind of treatment should be illegal!!
They're often used as side-tables or occasional / hallway tables these days, but they were originally meant for altars / shrines. Some of them can...
According to what she told me, her parents bought it at a local antiques shop. Sadly I don't have a photograph of it, but it looks a bit like...
The second piece looks similar to one that my SIL's parents own. If so, it's basically just a really nice shelving/display unit. I have seen...
The first item is a shrine table or altar table. It's where you pray to your ancestors, and where you might place the shrine-cabinet (if you have...
No, I wasn't able to find any information about the other mark. I suspected it was a maker's mark, but who for, I have no idea.
After examining the belt and confirming it was definitely high-grade silver, my jeweler wanted to weigh it, to determine the scrap-value (purely...
Well, I took the belt to my jeweler for his professional opinion. And the verdict is... ... solid silver!! He reckons anywhere between 935-950!...
In my experience, ANTIQUE sewing machines (those 80-100 years+) sell for between next-to-nothing, to upwards of about $300-$400, MAYBE a bit more...
Agreed. Not a SINGER. Looking at the general styling and design, this was likely made in GERMANY. The offset handcrank and the fiddle-base, the...
Thanks for the feedback. Responding to some of your other comments - yes, if it IS Peranakan, then southern Siamese would make more sense, since...
Sorry, I should've specified - YES - that is the mark on MY belt. It's stamped on the back of the buckle. The dealer I bought the belt from said...
Very nice. Shield-fobs, sometimes also called drop-fobs, because they're meant to hang or 'drop' off the end of your watch-chain. Sterling...
Given my track-record, it's probably nickel, but we live in hope, I guess.
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