Typical sweethearth boxes, you offer them with your gift to your lover. You buy them by a jeweller for that purpose.
Cigars seems to be less usable than a letter box, normally cigars are always on flat surface, in an hermetic box, in vertical position it's not...
What a good example you have here, they are very talentuous artists, but you have to pay them, contemporary japanese art is not for sale at 5...
It exist a near perfect imitation made in France with resin, not this item, just for info. Totally out of subject but I have to say that for my...
It's not really a problem, when it was mine, it takes some time before I decide to make the job comparing esthetic aspect and time consuming.
For me too, they are fantaise marks you can found on plates metal in England, I give you pictures of the same style if you want, in my material...
Age makes a difference as a brand new one sold one year ago is for sale as second hand and doesn't interest collectors as the first produced ones,...
The problem with your hole is the price, it's more than one hour work, impossible to repair without taking out the pierced part, repolishing after...
As my wife is a collector of GJ jewellery, I give you my opinion, I sell and buy some of them, the important + on value are, the condition, here...
As said before, value is anecdotic, stereo prints are interessant and with some value when they are made with animated subects, old workers, etc…...
I always say that it's cheaper for the same quality and use to buy antique furniture than new ones, you can buy pine furniture for nothing but...
As said a modern replica, not a fake or a copy legally speaking , and not the best one, here is how looks an original untouched from that...
You can found a lot of those items in Switzerland, end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century, some were enamelled, often with swiss cantons or...
Looking at the third picture,it's a candleholder for me.:bookworm: It's me or in the second picture you can see the pontil mark too ? The picture...
This is not a repair, just a conservative or cosmetic operation, a repair is the way used to restore the condition in his precedent state(before...
There is always the problem with cloisonné or similar techniques, the price is so high because they are only a few pieces totally intact, and it's...
Do you know that they are brushes softer than q-tips, we use white goat brushes(translating from poil de chèvre blanc or soie as quality) for example.
I agree, the technique is really not what's called plique-à-jour which is made on a pierced like a cloisonné item , enamel melt on a back support...
Does somebody looks at the wood "Black Forest" items, pictures are bad quality but they have something intriguing in their finish?
Be careful, as they are a lot of fakes, and especially with the more angular ones which are german, you can find them on ebay for information,...
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