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Post by shangas on Aug 16, 2015 22:51:59 GMT
Here's something a bit different that I picked up. Turn of the century jewelry case:   ...full of turn of the century jewels! ...No I'm kidding...those are my jewels    I rubbed the box over with boot-polish when I bought it. These photos will show you what it looked like when I got it home:   Big difference, huh? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2015 16:38:11 GMT
I am so sorry I didn't respond to your question earlier! I didn't notice it. Ladies carried their pocketwatches either on a waistcoat (like as men did), or on a chatelaine, or on a necklace around their necks. Some women (particularly nurses) would pin their pocketwatches to their blouses using brooches. Now you realise that you have to show me your pocketwatch  I will when I can figure out how to do it, and how to do it without contributing to the overuse of space on this forum! I will probably give photo bucket a try when I feel up to it.  Hmm. Trying to upload from photo bucket.. |
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Post by shangas on Aug 27, 2015 10:48:49 GMT
I will when I can figure out how to do it, and how to do it without contributing to the overuse of space on this forum! I will probably give photo bucket a try when I feel up to it. Hmm. Trying to upload from photo bucket.. You need to use the direct link option under the picture. Like this:  Cute watch. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2015 22:24:14 GMT
WHAT? How did you find the picture if I did it wrong?
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Post by shangas on Aug 27, 2015 23:50:11 GMT
I accessed the link and copied the correct URL.
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Post by snacky on Aug 29, 2015 6:05:43 GMT
Hmm. Trying to upload from photo bucket.. You need to use the direct link option under the picture. Like this: Cute watch. Waaaa watch so tiny!  |
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Post by snacky on Aug 29, 2015 6:17:08 GMT
I will when I can figure out how to do it, and how to do it without contributing to the overuse of space on this forum! I will probably give photo bucket a try when I feel up to it. Hmm. Trying to upload from photo bucket.. Copy the "Direct Link" url and paste it in to the top box (top box only) of the Insert Image dialog box you get when you click the button that has the pic of a photograph on it (between the envelope and the movie director thingy). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 15:54:26 GMT
Hmm. Trying to upload from photo bucket.. Copy the "Direct Link" url and paste it in to the top box (top box only) of the Insert Image dialog box you get when you click the button that has the pic of a photograph on it (between the envelope and the movie director thingy). Thank you Snacky! I think I got it! Yay! |
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Post by shangas on Sept 6, 2015 9:03:04 GMT
Some recent antique silver I got my fingers on...   This is a vinaigrette. That is, a personal air-freshener. In there would sit a little sponge. I still have the original sponge. I just took it out to photograph it. It's gilt (lined in gold) to prevent the silver from being damaged by the perfume that you'd soak the sponge in. This thing is OLD. It would almost be an antique when Murdoch was around, so that'll give you some idea. It's from 1823!!  Sterling silver S. Mordan & Co. dip pen and propelling-pencils from the 1870s.  Sterling silver card-case from 1885. |
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Post by Oigirl on Sept 6, 2015 16:11:17 GMT
Shangas - The vinaigrette is gorgeous. I've never even heard of such a thing, but considering normal hygiene back in the day it makes perfect sense.
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Post by snacky on Sept 6, 2015 19:28:29 GMT
Some recent antique silver I got my fingers on... This is a vinaigrette. That is, a personal air-freshener. In there would sit a little sponge. I still have the original sponge. I just took it out to photograph it. It's gilt (lined in gold) to prevent the silver from being damaged by the perfume that you'd soak the sponge in. This thing is OLD. It would almost be an antique when Murdoch was around, so that'll give you some idea. It's from 1823!! Sterling silver S. Mordan & Co. dip pen and propelling-pencils from the 1870s. Sterling silver card-case from 1885. Did I ever ask you what you read to learn about these antiques? |
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Post by shangas on Sept 6, 2015 22:33:25 GMT
What do you mean by 'learn', Snacky? As in how I tell how old they are and stuff? Or...what?
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Post by shangas on Sept 6, 2015 22:37:30 GMT
Shangas - The vinaigrette is gorgeous. I've never even heard of such a thing, but considering normal hygiene back in the day it makes perfect sense. I have heard of vinaigrettes before, although they are rather rare. They were popular from the 1700s to around the early-mid 1800s. They started to die out around mid-century. By the time Murdoch is doing his thing in the 1880s, 1890s, these would've been seriously antiquated. Nobody would've bothered buying one. If anything, they probably inherited the damn thing!! It would've been more de-rigeur to carry a handsome glass phial or bottle of smelling-salts or something. Some piddly, pissy little silver box! What's that gonna do, huh? HUH!? Yeah, you can kinda see why they fell outta favour... |
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Post by snacky on Sept 7, 2015 0:44:57 GMT
What do you mean by 'learn', Snacky? As in how I tell how old they are and stuff? Or...what? How you recognize unusual objects and what they were used for as well as being able to gauge their age and manufacture details. |
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Post by shangas on Sept 7, 2015 2:28:50 GMT
How you recognize unusual objects and what they were used for as well as being able to gauge their age and manufacture details. Reading, watching movies/TV shows. Reading. Surfing eBay and Google Images. Reading. Gauging age and manufacture is sometime a bit of a guessing-game. With silver, it's pretty easy. By law, all silver MUST be hallmarked if it's over a certain size or weight (under that, hallmarking is optional). So it's just a matter of learning how to read hallmarks and look for the signs. British Silver is pretty easy. The standard hallmarks are: Maker's Mark. Assay Mark. Purity Mark. Duty Mark. Date Letter. So here. Let's take the silver card-case:  [D&LS] = David & Lionel Spiers - Maker's Mark. I = 1885 - Date-Letter. [ANCHOR] = Birmingham - Assay Office Mark. [LION PASSANT] = Sterling Silver - Purity Mark. [MONARCH'S HEAD] = Duty Paid - Duty Mark. There are ways of dating stuff like this. For example, this piece has the MONARCH'S HEAD hallmark. The Monarch's Head signifies that tax was paid on the silver. This was abolished in 1890. So any silver with a monarch's head stamp is PRE-1890. The date-letter, when coupled with the CORRECT assay office, will give you the date and location of hallmarking down to the year. Date-letters change all the time, so you need to be VERY careful. In this case, I had the monarch's head. So this case was made BEFORE 1890. So I look at the date-letter charts for Birmingham and start at 1889, and work my way back until I find the letter (of the CORRECT STYLE) which matches the one on the case. That gives me the correct date - 1885.  This is the chart of date-letters for the Birmingham Assay Office, from 1773 (when the office was established) to 1924. It's simply a matter of matching the letters. As you can see - size, style and shape vary every few years, so you must be VERY specific in matching - otherwise you can screw up the dating quite spectacularly. In case you're wondering, yes the Birmingham Assay Office is still going today, and they still do date-letters. You'd have to visit their website for a more up-to-date list. You get better at it the more you look at these things, as with anything. But with some things, all you can do is guess. There's sometimes just no way of accurately dating some things or knowing what thye're made of or how or when... |
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