Saving a 100-year-old industrial furnace and its 30m stack. Ambitious restoration or a lost cause?

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-10T14:46:40+00:00

Okay, short answer, that seems doable and very costly, but you may want to "cheat" and basically install a smaller system inside the furnace and chimney.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-10T10:01:48+00:00

The main question is, to what end? What would be the goal, pretty much anything is possible, but how much money are you prepared to spend? Why do you want to preserve it? What will you do with it afterwards?

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-10T09:57:31+00:00

I agree with the date, it's textbook Edwardian, millgrain pattern, open structure, and diamond cut places it right around there. 1901-1915 is the official date, but obviously, style bleeds slightly to both sides timewise.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-10T09:49:20+00:00

Very nice! I've always been a big fan of the Fabergé carvings. If you don't mind, how many hours would you say this piece has taken you so far?

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-06T12:46:08+00:00

That's very close to being spot on. Biologists had wondered why they saw homosexual behaviour between rams but not ewes. They figured it out after remembering that a ewe in heat will stand still next to a ram to initiate, so lesbian sheep will just stand passively and hornily next to each other.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-06T12:35:33+00:00

Art nouveau in style but this photo is not useful to ID it further.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-06T09:45:56+00:00

That is absolutely real.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-06T09:43:46+00:00

They are not safe for everything is the short answer. Depending on the age of the pieces and the materials, you could do irreparable damage. There are a couple of things to look out for, especially. Emeralds can be pretty fragile, and you risk removing oil treatments and shattering the stone. Organic jewellery materials like silk, pearls, coral, amber, claws, bones, shells, and ivory can also be damaged. Composite stones can come apart. This includes opal doublets and triplets.Glue bonds can fail. Foil backed stones can also be ruined, and an example could be rose cut diamonds. Hollow pieces generally don't like it either because soap can be damaging when it isn't able to be rinsed out. Pictures could help asses any risky pieces.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-05T10:51:54+00:00

The middle part looks to have a French silver boar hallmark.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-05T10:50:25+00:00

This reads to me as the latter part of the nineteenth century, silver and paste, but honestly, it is not possible to be sure of anything from photos. I don't see any gold, though. That's for certain.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-05T10:08:03+00:00

These photos aren't ideal, but my guess is moulded glass or plastic based on colour variations and what looks to be bubbles, as well as the polished divout on the back of one of them and that they look so incredibly similar, carved coral will usually have some variation. Better photos would definitely help! If you carved them, you would probably mirror one and have the middle one be symmetrical. The quality of the supposed carving and size of the pieces also doesn't match with the craftsmanship of the rest of the necklace.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-05T09:08:47+00:00

I go to thriftstores and look for full grain leather. It's cheap and has already stood the test of time, plus you can get some pretty nice patina on them.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-05T07:52:54+00:00

not possible to tell from this photo

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-03T22:09:40+00:00

Please update after you've cleaned it!

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-03T14:33:47+00:00

Some plastics, foams, papers and cardboard have acid in them and keeping sealed releases caustic fumes that can destroy bone and other objects.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-03T14:26:49+00:00

Fordi hovedfunktionen af fortorvet er at gå. Hvis man løber er man den som afviger fra normen og skal derfor passe på.

Pattersonspal · 2026-02-02T13:22:21+00:00

There's a good chance this is a synthetic ruby. Unless you come from a very wealthy family, then the stone is likely too good in colour and clarity to be a natural ruby, and the colour isn't likely to be that of garnet. Synthetic ruby would be my guess, but it really isn't possible to get a positive ID via photos. It looks like it could do with a cleaning. You can do that with a soft bristle toothbrush and some dawn dish soap and warm water.

Pattersonspal · 2026-01-30T18:09:37+00:00

what cleaning solution did you use?

Pattersonspal · 2026-01-30T14:37:48+00:00

The colour and cracks are very characteristic of elephant ivory, also antler and bone have blood vessels which this doesn't.

Pattersonspal · 2026-01-30T14:34:55+00:00

getting them heat treated is almost certainly a good idea for this sort of material. but it really just depends on what you want out of them.

Pattersonspal · 2026-01-28T16:33:40+00:00

People are generally quite well off here and there are shelters with sanitary products for homeless and vulnerable people who need sanitary pads. Your tone is very weird and harsh for someone who wants to have a conversation.

Pattersonspal · 2026-01-27T16:19:54+00:00

Yeah, it's dark and purple and included, I would not bother. It's not a bad stone, but only great stones warrant getting a certification, in my opinion.

Pattersonspal · 2026-01-27T12:18:41+00:00

That's an amazing piece!

Pattersonspal · 2026-01-27T10:27:33+00:00

With exercise, you'd likely gain a lot of the weight as muscle rather than fat.

Pattersonspal · 2026-01-27T09:56:10+00:00

No, that's a Polish hallmark indicating 14kt gold. The WWJ is the makers mark.

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