Antiques Board
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Chinese or Japanese? Different dress and hairstyles.
Some clues for finding out if an item is Chinese and Japanese by looking at the costumes and hairstyles.
First Chinese art, which usually depicts people in Hanfu dress, the traditional clothing... -
Age of this purse?
New to collecting antique clothing and purses. How old do you think this purse is? Red velvet with gold metal embroidery. Measured, 6" x 7". Possibly Regency era? TIA -
Today's finds
An eclectic little group!
No particular questions but if anyone has any thoughts I'd love to hear them.
Thankyou for looking

Lovely heavy green glass beads and cute little square wire bracelet... -
This may have been answered, but if so, I forgot the answer...sorry....but!
My niece asked a couple of weeks ago about getting a stain out of an old piece of lace... she put a plant on top of it....not expecting the bottom of the pot to leak....well, it did, and she... -
Identifying beads
Dear all,
a friend of mine has a necklace of some kind of natural beads (some kind of nut?). The beads are quite big, approximately 1in/2-2,5cm in diameter.
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Silver and ? Ring
I found this little ring at an antiques mall in the US. I’ve looked for info about the mark on the back, I’m not really sure what I’m looking at to be honest.
A piece of the stone has fallen... -
Inuit art update, now with sig, can anyone ID?
I posted a pic a few weeks but I had not yet taken posession. Now that I have it here is a close up of the sig. It is Inuit art from Alaska hoping someone can ID this. tx -
Not exactly jewelry, but has rhinestones...
Just curious what this piece came off of? A jewelry or trinket box, maybe? Seems to be lacquer, hand painted, with rhinestones, etc. Thinking 1920s/30s or so.
Former owner must have just had... -
Unusual Antique Early Art Glass Vase Needing Studio Identification
A Thick hand blown in mold 5.2 inch high art glass vase with Marigold type Carnival Glass glaze very thickly applied and a ground and polished pontil on the base. Very abstract Cubist design but... -
Old machinist tool I needed
I missed a snipe, reported in Militaria recently, so I didn’t spend over $100. I had set aside for it. So pretty soon I found a tool item I actually needed. I already have a dividing head but in...
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