I was thinking India when I saw the photos. Apparently, India bought a LOT of surplus brass after WW2 and turned it into all sorts of things....
I would guess that the monetary value of this particular image, being in an unusual, undamaged case, with the subject being at least tentatively...
Here is the wonderful octagonal union case, before and after cleaning: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The procedure I used for this was a few...
I recently did some conservation work on some ambrotypes and a tintype for a friend of mine. The images are all of her family members, but...
That was my first thought, also. Some sort of writing or marking instrument. If it was in a sewing kit, maybe a fancy chalk for marking material?
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...
You were looking at a cropped image. Here is the whole image: [ATTACH]
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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...
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