Sigh...I had such sweet hopes. Anyway...Pirates frequently used all-black flags, which served as a warning to other ships before an attack. These...
I cannot disagree, Debora...but I can Hope! EDIT: I asked Google; here's what popped up: AI Overview The American illustrator you are likely...
No, sir...only that it might have been sawn anytime after sawmills became common. Sorry for the confusion...
The frame is 10 3/4" by 7 3/4"; the image is 7 1/8" by 4 1/4". The look is as if matted, but it isn't; the image ground is white, the 'mat' is a...
Beautifully integrated grain, a lovely piece of work! The bottom faintly shows radial sawtooth lines...which could easily be 150 years old.
WAY Cool...Thanks, Bosko!
I've got a modern cranker, the horizontal-cut kind...I like it, an' the clean results. I also have the battery-powered teardrop, which cuts...
Nice! If truly period...would it belong in a museum?
Or, looking at it 180 degrees from posted...a capital B?
Generous of you, old boy...Thanks!
~613 grams of wood an' steel; the shaft is a ~5/8" chamfered octagonal; the blade is ~1/4" thick, an' is not welded to the shaft, but tenoned into...
A case could be made for this to be more appropriately shown in Metalwork. Decisions about such finicky minutia are wholly beyond this mortal....
Who, sir? ME, sir? No, sir...not I, sir!
That Caddy got a whole lotta pimpin', y'know...Sweet!
They were only active for 7 years...the stamp appears older...in style an' otherwise. Is the desk a contemporary piece...or older than 2007?
I dunno much...but it looks Minton to me. Nice!
Duzzit say SATIN?
Looks like a Topaz crystal to me...
How big izzit, Marote?
No...but I really like that stopper!
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