Looks like caricature art.
Something to look for is any deforming of the metal around the impressed letters. A true Tiffany piece should be totally flat around the letters....
I think it's Austrian artist Eduard Ritter.
Here are more photos. @Hollyblue, I don't see any seams. Maybe reflections look like seams in the photos. The ring is very dainty, but it feels...
The ring is solid, although not real thick, and appears to be one piece. The two "holes" are not actual holes. They are shadows from a bevel...
It has an outside diameter of a little over 2 1/4 inches, and an inside diameter of about 1 3/4 inches. I think it could only fit on a small wrist.
This is an item handed down in my wife's family that I'm trying to figure out which ancestor to connect it to. It appears to be a bracelet, sized...
This is a ring handed down in my wife's family. It's sized for a girl or woman. I'm trying to work out which of her ancestors to connect it to. On...
I wonder if anyone can shed some light on what we have here. Would you class this as folk art? Where do you think it's from? Is it desirable? This...
The easiest way is to take it to a luthier or some other person that knows violins. There are features such as weight, balance, wood type, and...
Appears to be an inexpensive mass produced German violin with a serious neck issue. As someone mentioned, you should check out the bow for value....
Reminds me of tagua nut carvings.
The fins are designed to impart spin (for stabilization during flight). The fins are smaller than the maximum diameter of the body, so to me, it...
On the left hand side of the web page there is a list of your previous chat sessions, which you can revisit if you click on one.
Be careful about asking ChatGPT about artwork. I asked it for a list of public sculptures by a known, mid-tier artist, and every piece on the list...
If I read that site correctly, the resin can make up no more than 25% of the total weight. Wouldn't that mean that the swan contains quite a lot...
You might have been able to ask the framers, but it appears Raven Frameworks may have gone out of business some time after 2019.
I think the date on the gun is Jan 1875. If correct, then just a month.
Confirmation that Brinker was in the Rochester NY area (this was from a 25 Dec 1874 Rochester newspaper): [ATTACH]
My wife's great aunt Helen (who was an American), worked as a nurse in Belgian military hospitals during WWI. She married a Belgian she met there...
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