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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antque Photo

« on: June 04, 2012, 11:45:36 am »

Depends on how ornate the framing is & the size, they came in a range of sizes.  I've had them in beautiful arts & crafts frames which I sold for around $100 for both to ones in very plain, small frames for $35 for the pair.  It depends on where you are & what the market is in your area.  The market has dropped significantly here & if I were offered them I wouldn't purchase them unless the framing was great.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Antque Photo

« on: June 04, 2012, 12:45:29 am »

"Cupid asleep" isn't a family photo, I have sold many of these over the years along with it's mate, "Cupid Awake." The pictures show a real little girl named Josephine Anderson. The original portraits were taken by M. B. Parkinson who worked in the New York City area during the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s.   Ohio Art Co. that made the prints popular across the country.   

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Is this an old teapot?

« on: May 04, 2012, 02:08:44 pm »

Looks like a teapot but given that you didn't indicate a size, there is nothing else to reference scale so it's hard to tell.  Also need a picture of the marks, it's impossible to know date or maker unless we see the marks.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Silver item help!

« on: March 19, 2012, 05:34:09 pm »

ES is the maker, but I can't find out who it is.  The date letter is for 1943, Sheffield.  It is a very plain napkin ring, unless you can find out that it was for an important event it would be worth melt value.  At the moment unless something has significant decorative or historical value, melt is the best you can hope for.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Need help with Louis XIV furniture set

« on: March 15, 2012, 11:59:05 am »

Looks like quite typical European furniture from the late 19th century.  Here on the west coast we have a lot of dealers who bring containers of it over from Belgium particularly.  There's nothing wrong with it, but I don't for a moment believe it's 18th century.  That orange marble is very typical of what we see here.  BTW, smaller hand cut  dovetails are much harder to make that large hand cut dovetails.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Victorian Sugar Tongs? EPNS Help value please?

« on: February 15, 2012, 12:55:06 pm »

I can't give away silver plated sugar tongs right now, the only ones selling are sterling & they only sell for melt.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Value of very old porcelain tray?

« on: February 15, 2012, 12:53:49 pm »

Villeroy & Boch, & Mettlach made a lot of this type of tray.  Value depends on where you're trying to sell it.  Art Nouveau ones are the only ones that sell well for me. 

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Old Postal Scale - Made In England

« on: January 16, 2012, 09:18:54 pm »

Made in England usually indicates post 1921.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Kosta Boda Sweden owl?

« on: January 16, 2012, 09:16:35 pm »

Could also be Skruf Sweden, circa 1975.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Had to share another, this one is off the charts

« on: January 10, 2012, 01:41:39 am »

    I do have a couple of questions about it.  It comes with 3 bottles, what would you need bottles for in a sewing box?  Then the more complex question, and this has come up twice since I have been there.  Their is a lid with this box, that really appears to be silver, has the tarnish of silver, but when we tested it with acid in the jewerly dept. I came up unknown metal, this happened on another item I had.  What metal tarnishes like silver but the acid test says it is not?? 

 http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=9206359

It's not a sewing box which is why it has 3 bottles & a toothbrush box.  You would have taken your bottles to the pharmacy to get them filled with whatever creams or lotions you wanted.   The boxes were used as dresser boxes, but also used for traveling.  It seems to be missing quite a few things, but most of them usually are missing a couple of things.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Travellers Metal Tea Set?

« on: December 30, 2011, 12:44:29 pm »

I'm not sure how they work for sure, I've only had a couple of them & never used them, but I wonder if it's just a sealed container for extras that you would want to take along.  These were in picnic sets from the late teens to the thirties & fourties, cars like Bugatti's, MG's etc, with a luggage rack on the "boot" 

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Travellers Metal Tea Set?

« on: December 30, 2011, 01:59:27 am »

It's a cocktail shaker, the raised arches is a lemon reamer.  I have seen these as part of a high end auto picnic set.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: weird knife i found

« on: December 19, 2011, 01:50:48 pm »

I think it might be a kirpan, which is a sikh religious dagger.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Penshurst Semi Porcelain Serving Tray

« on: December 03, 2011, 08:43:54 pm »

Penshurst is the pattern, made by Ridgways.  Looks like an underplate to me, in flow blue.    Flow blue is very underappreciated here at the moment, so I won't give a value.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Identifying marks

« on: November 25, 2011, 12:54:02 pm »

The english registration mark of 170000 gives you the date code of 1891.