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4th July 2015, 11:06 PM
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indeed Jim its a shame when gross inaccuracies in books or in even nowadays internet articles, that are are used to inflate the prices of junk pieces...
Chaps, the crown on the lead stamp is for the last 2 century's at least a Queens crown not a Kings, Its either Vickys or Lizzies, but as it is stamped in lead in reverse, from a true stamp it clearly, not an old British museum stamp. {Even impoverished carpenters had there own steel stamps made, to mark there tools in Victorian times, never mind museums!} More like an impression made from a Crown button, buckle or some such. Cold pressed into a piece of soft lead. Spiral 
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6th July 2015, 03:47 AM
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Guys, I am really enjoying it:-)
Seriously, I truly admire your attention to details and unexpected approaches to the riddles of attribution. Great twist of the discussion! |
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6th July 2015, 10:51 PM
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 I wonder what Afghan vegetable or other natural dyes would create that bright red scabbard colouring & maintain it for 100 plus years? linky.. Spiral[ |
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7th July 2015, 11:39 PM
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I see your point, but we do not know where and under what conditions this scabbard spent the last 150 years:-)
I recently saw pics of Jane Fonda.... |
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8th July 2015, 12:34 AM
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(she's 77 BTW) jane with her makeup off taking a toke off her spliff: |
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15th May 2016, 09:21 PM
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Exceedingly plain, I'm afraid. I assume mid-late 20th c, acquired in Kabul's Chicken Street buried beneath much more obviously modern junk.
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