Featured Finds Thread

I don't see a "Brooks and Crooks" in the Birmingham marks list, but there is a Broadway and Co. whose various marks registered in the late 1900's look ver much like what's on your coaster.

http://www.silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Makers/Birmingham-B.html

(Or was Brooks and Crooks a joke? - it is rather a funny combinations.)

 

Kinda like the lawyers "Dewey, Cheetham & Howe"?????

(But @Bakersgma link DOES show a Brooks & Crookes listed!!!)

 

True. But did you see the registered date for their mark and what it looks like as compared to the one on Chris's coaster?

 

Very much like that. Or "I. Fleeceum" for that matter.

 

One other thing to add to Chris Mount's reading of the marks on his coaster. The page of Birmingham Date Marks in the following link is read with the year to the RIGHT of the illustration. The date letter S in the shape shown on his piece is 1992, not 1967 (which is the date to the LEFT of the illustration and applies to the illustration to its left.) The table is so big and the printing so small, that's an easy mistake to make.

http://silvermakersmarks.co.uk/Dates/Birmingham.html

 

Yeah didn't scroll far enough for year and maybe broadway and co cos it's in an oval bear with me new at this

 

No problem, Chris. We all were new to deciphering English marks once.

 

I buckled down today...

~

 

I smell a catenary! They have to be fantasy pieces, but I'd have jumped on the tram buckle too - too many years of trailing around after my dad at trolley and railroad museums.

 

The curve described by a uniform chain hanging from two supports in a uniform gravitational field is called a catenary, a name apparently coined by Thomas Jefferson.

 

Lovely. It is from Mstera/Mstyora. Here is some info:
http://www.russianlacquerart.com/cnt/Mstera

Oops, just saw Fig already answered. I was catching up on weeks of finds.

 

@Bakersgma, just a quick and maybe stupid question, but have you tried hitting
"Ctrl +" on your keyboard to increase the size of what's on your screen??? You can keep tapping the + sign to keep increasing size....to decrease....it's "Ctrl -"...... sometimes things are so simple we don't think of them or forget about them

 

I'm SO tempted.......

 

You are "potentially" SO WICKED!!!!!

 

Moi????

 

Oui toi! At least that's what Google said!!!!!!!!

 

Why tap? Just hold the "ctrl"key down and use the mouse wheel to change the size.

 

AHA!!!! So true!!!! AND I never think to do THAT!!!!! THANKS Holly!!!!!

 

I use Tools>Zoom and then select a percentage I think will be appropriate, although it's very easy to change if that choice turns out to be insufficient or too large to stay in focus. The part of my post about the tiny print didn't mean that I was having any problems reading the table, just that others who are not familiar with it may be easily confused.

 

It's also a proper term for the overhead wires used by electric engines and trolley cars, but these days you either have to be a railway worker or a train nut to use it.