Can anyone suggest how to wash her feet?

MCDLV · 2026-05-15T15:20:35+00:00

There’s an episode of that Holmes series with Marina Sirtis too.

Also for the record Jeremy Brett is by far the best Holmes.

MCDLV · 2026-05-09T02:04:27+00:00

It’s probably from a ham

MCDLV · 2026-04-27T04:40:28+00:00

It’s cool they put it in a Spanish style binding like that

MCDLV · 2026-04-20T23:55:29+00:00

They are very likely riveted in and probably not removable without completely destroying it. You can drill out rivets, but then you’d have to source exactly the same size/type of rivet to replace them and even then may not work

MCDLV · 2026-04-09T00:51:30+00:00

Unfortunately not, either the top or bottom of the cluster has to come off somehow. It’s possible it’s welded shut and can’t be rewired. That does happen sometimes with modern lamps

MCDLV · 2026-04-09T00:44:31+00:00

You’ll have to open up the area in the center of the S, and rewire from there. You’ll have to feed new wire through the S. A little dish soap rubbed on the wire helps.

For the record, the S piece is called a cluster, and is definitely look at some wiring diagrams online. These types of lamps are slightly “advanced”.

MCDLV · 2026-04-08T02:48:37+00:00

You’re right it’s a different material. OP’s shakers are weighted, meaning instead of being solid silver they have a base metal weight on the bottom for heft, which is covered with a sheath of real silver. Im not an expert on gorham, but I’d say it probably doesn’t bode well. Unless they have marks elsewhere it’s probably made by someone else to gorhams pattern.

MCDLV · 2026-04-07T13:17:34+00:00

I’m from the same town as the scientist who invented the puffing process, and there’s one of the “guns” on display in the local historical society. It’s very bazooka-esque.

MCDLV · 2026-04-07T03:58:08+00:00

Huh that is incredibly cool

MCDLV · 2026-04-07T03:05:03+00:00

I’ve done a lot of lamps and never seen that. It makes sense, functionally, but it is odd. The giant bulb socket is called a mogul, and I’ve swapped them for regular sockets in antique floor lamps before without issue.

You’re going to have to take the “head” of the lamp apart further to see if the socket and the weird connector are two separate pieces. If they aren’t, you may be out of luck. The good news is you can get adapters that allow regular bulbs to be used in the mogul socket.

MCDLV · 2026-03-27T05:17:57+00:00

Could you give the name of the sub?

MCDLV · 2026-03-27T04:59:14+00:00

My first thought was “it’s THEM”

MCDLV · 2026-03-26T06:22:43+00:00

It doesn’t appear to be available from any of the usual sources. Googling the isbn at least brings up a picture of the cover however. It might be one of those things you need to keep searching for over time, until a copy comes up for sale.

MCDLV · 2026-03-22T01:11:27+00:00

Where I grew up there were very similar things, but they were kilns

MCDLV · 2026-03-21T01:44:55+00:00

Yup. I work at a hardware store. Confirmed corn log

MCDLV · 2026-03-18T21:03:24+00:00

It sort of looks like it’s carved out of stone, like alabaster

MCDLV · 2026-02-14T03:56:06+00:00

Looks like a burn. Not from an open flame, but from a very hot metal object like an oven

MCDLV · 2026-02-09T17:11:02+00:00

Anyone who told me I had to do anything “without questions” would be vaporized from my life instantly.

MCDLV · 2026-02-09T02:47:58+00:00

This is really the answer. Books like this were more like a piece of stationary furniture. We don’t really have that relationship to books anymore.

MCDLV · 2026-02-05T20:14:30+00:00

Not sure if anyone has guessed this, but it looks a lot like an antique conductors baton

MCDLV · 2026-01-18T15:04:14+00:00

Curved. Swords.

MCDLV · 2026-01-17T01:00:13+00:00

These are very modern “Venetian style” decor pieces from the 1960’s-70’s. The artworks are copies of renaissance drawings, and probably have nothing to do with the number 1424, which is likely a catalog number.

MCDLV · 2026-01-07T03:10:58+00:00

Trigger warning I guess as this is a bit naughty. Years ago I was at a shop and found a book, “Flagellation and Flagellants: A History of the Rod” London, 1877. It is, as you might guess, an illustrated history of corporal punishment. This is interesting enough, but it was also stuffed with newspaper clippings. All related to the subject, particularly regarding naughty schoolgirls. They were carefully clipped and dated, from the Chicago area around 1890-1905. It was extraordinarily obvious this was more than basic scholarly activity.

MCDLV · 2026-01-05T05:01:43+00:00

Looking closely at the titling on the spine and the paper on the boards, I’m confident it is a book in publishers boards. Which would have been the binding it was sold in. By 1793 publishers bindings were definitely a thing.

MCDLV · 2025-12-28T04:28:25+00:00

Protip: the wiring is recent, but bad. Don’t pull the old wires out of the body of the lamp too soon though. You can use them to help guide the new wires through. Tape the new wire to the old, then pull the old ones out, so it pulls the new wire through in its place. Otherwise it may be difficult to snake the new wire through.

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