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MrNate

Reed & Barton Sterling Flatware Complete Set

Greetings again to everyone on the forum. I can only describe today as an amazing day, and I am grateful for being able to share with you all. I don't even really know where to begin to describe...

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Any Jewelry

Help for the glass on my Mughal beauty, please.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve the transparency of the glass on my little brooch?
It is a mid 19th century Lahore School silver mounted miniature portrait of Mumtaz Mahal, 1593-1631,...

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Bookahtoo

Cylinder vase with 3D strands made in Italy - who?

Sorry for the crummy photos - they're all I managed to get this morning.

I've been trying to figure out who may have made this vase. The crisscrossed strands of glaze are 3D.

Can anyone help?

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Huntingtreasure

Marble Head of Roman Emporer Found

https://nypost.com/2018/04/26/marbl...t/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=message_app

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ola402

EAPG Covered Cheese Dish and Peachblow or Burmese?

Hi All, I'll start with the maybe Peachblow glass. It came in a lot of old tumblers, but it doesn't look like a tumbler to me. Maybe, part of something else? I looked in my book on Peachblow...

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aaroncab

Cinnabar lacquer on bronze plate - how old?

Found this guy yesterday and spent what for me was a little more than usual but really not that much. Fairly sure this is real cinnabar lacquer over bronze. I think - from looking at gotheborg and...

aaroncab Apr 27, 2018 Read More Replies: 12

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Natasha

SOVIET PROPAGANDA COMPOSITION

Hello everybody,

Just would like to show a unique propaganda composition FRIENDSHIP. I assume this piece was made for the 1957 Youth Festival in Moscow. It's a museum level piece, the highest...

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spirit-of-shiloh

Thought I would Share a few Antique Books From my Mini LibraryI Love

Hi all,these books are some of my FAVES...Book on horses a bit tattered and torn but for being 183 years old I guess its OK

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R. Antonis

2 Charles X Soapy Opaline Glass Vases - Extraordinary

Hi everybody,

This one I don't really have much questions about.
I just want to show them to you.
I have bought them a couple of weeks ago.

These are 2 very beautiful opalcrystal vases.
Nicely...

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R. Antonis

Antique Green Glass Moser Portrait Perfume Bottle

Hi everybody,

Guess who's back!!
I haven't been posting anything here for months now because I was just too busy and too lazy, and that's not really a good combination.

I have a few...

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