I purchased this Chinese barrel type vessel recently. It was sold with the description stating there were unknown contents. The consignor and...
Those are some crisp hallmarks if I’ve ever seen any. Interesting placement. Can’t have seen much use at all, looks pretty mint.
Congrats. Sounds like you can’t lose! I’m sure folks here could help you ID the others. I’d use a closeup of the bird, flowers, and tree in my...
Those are pretty damn nice. I think bought cheap you’d do ok. They are so attractive I think they’d be hard to resist at fair prices. Bought cheap...
Looks like quite a bit of detail in the hand as well. The shape of the hand could be a little wonky I can’t tell for sure. The skin looks like...
If you got them for cheapish relative to their value then you did fantastic. Amazing collection! They look good overall to me. I do great selling...
Beautiful watch. Is the band gold as well?
I wonder how long the guy looked for his watch. Probably turned his house upside down and fired the lady the came in to clean the house every...
that is interesting. It’s so hard to tell on shiny metal in photos. Sometimes silver objects look gold and sometimes gold objects look silver in...
Lower karat gold could potentially have verdigris I guess. I know what you mean though. I have some that you’d swear up and down are gold when you...
If you zoom in on your final photo there’s quite a bit of tiny verdigris present. Definitely a copper based alloy so probably brass. Nice stick! I...
What is material is yours made of? Great looking thing!
Lead weights. That’s something to consider going forward when buying silver desk/dresser boxes at auctions and sales.
I wouldn’t be shocked if they turned out to be first half 20th and I wouldn’t be shocked if they turned out 50s-80’s. Could be a mix of eras too....
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