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Flower pots. They’re more robust and it’ll soon be Northern hemisphere spring.
I make partitions in a box, using scrap cardboard and an industrial-sized hot glue gun. That’s to make sure the piece stays in the centre of the box; wrapped with tissue paper, then bubble wrap and then packed in peanuts. But I’ve never shipped more than two pieces together. I recommend the large glue gun; I’ve got a couple of smaller ones as well, and they’re pretty useless.
I’ll put in a plug for “Das Feuerzeug”, illustrated by Heinrich Strub. Suspect a copy would be pretty expensive.
eBay’s started sticking a code (like EBAYK3ZRQT9 (changed to protect the innocent)) between the buyer’s street address and the town. Don’t know what the purpose of that is, but I edit the label to move it somewhere else where it’s not going to confuse the posty.
At least they’ve started auto-formatting the buyer’s address, with the name neatly capitalised and the address all in block capitals and spaced properly.
12/12/2020 at 11:28 am in reply to: Muckluks, Persian Slipper Socks..Kurdish…? what are these called? #84212Hoover up road dirt- there’s 6 grams of platinum in every ton. Alternatively, go straight for the source and remove catalytic convertors from parked cars. According to the police it takes a skilled thief less than a minute to cut one off.
My understanding on this (and I might be wrong) is that as it’s Adyen that’s managing the payments, maybe all this messing about is down to them. Don’t know about trained monkeys, but according to someone working at Adyen they pay their staff peanuts.
At least they’re not Wirecard. 🙂
Found the reference for the lithograph, section 27 of Bamber Gascoigne’s “How to identify prints”, Tinted Lithographs. Printed from two stones, with black ink on one and (typically) fawn-coloured ink on the other to give an impression of a background wash or tone.
Probably did have a cork- I had a Sharwoods ginger jar with a cork, but unfortunately it was missing the lid.
Urgh, no. Even Sweeney Todd wouldn’t do that.
I think it may be a grocer’s pot for mustard or some kind of meat paste, produced by a pottery in England with a  transfer-printed design. There’s a groove round the mouth where some string could be tied to hold a paper lid, and maybe the lid would have the grocer’s name printed.
The design looks to be done by lithography, not from a engraved copper plate. Those two-tone lithos came in about the 1850s.
Apparently if it’s French silver it should have two marks; the first being either the head of Minerva  or a boar’s head, and the second the maker’s mark.
British silver’s got four marks. Often electro-plated nickel silver has marks made to look like silver hall marks (like E P N S in shields).
Just found a Victor Saglier coffee pot on eBay UK- there’s the V S mark and a 5-figure pattern number on the base, and a big dent in the spout. It’s being sold as silver-plated, and judging by the big dent it’s plated on copper.
Victor Saglier of Paris, late 19th century. https://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_S.html
That was difficult! Turned out someone had a set of cutlery with mixed S F and V S marks, so I looked for S F and ship, which is Saglier Freres, successors to Victor.
Looks like it’s from Mstyora / Mstera , which is said to have restarted lacquer work production in the 1960s. The couple of boxes I’ve got are from there, but signed with the town name and the title- they’re both illustrations of fables. Otherwise similar to yours.
Reminds me of a scene from Solzhenitsyn’s ‘First Circle’, where the camp artist is painting from memory a river just as it is about to start freezing. To me, unusual and very nice, and not in the usual run of boxes, like what my boxes are 🙂
Francis Howard of Sheffield. You may be better off selling the pot unpolished- when I’ve polished sliver plate I seem to end up with something that shows all the scratches!
One thing that might happen to some people- happened to me- is that eBay might require you to upload some form of photo id, like a passport or driving licence. They didn’t give an explanation, but when the ‘hello’ message changed to my formal name I realised it was because eBay only knew me by my diminutive and they needed some official proof to tie me to the bank a/c. That was  a couple of days back- haven’t yet received the confirmatory email.
It does seem that if you’ve got two names, like John Fluffy Kitboodle, and you call yourself Fluffy that’s okay. But not Fluffa…
According to someone on GlassDoor, who claims to work for Adyen NV, the pay is on average 20% less than in other comparable financial institutions, and the top executive levels are dominated by Dutchmen.
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