That's mainly because I make that since a long time and be active with my wife in repair and sale of those items, but it doesn't always function,...
Not especially russian items, but when I have a piece over the standart, I kept them in place to put it on sale, and after some decades… A little...
91 zolotniki like that ? :angelic: [IMG] on that cigarette case [IMG] excuse me for the bad picture quality, but just made quickly to illustrate...
I give you an info about forgeries, to modify the results with UV light, some very inventive use a spray of incolor cover as used to protect...
Out of subject, but I have an orchester of 12 musicians(gueux in french translated in hoboes?) in ivory from Maastrich at the end of the 19th century.
I've bought what seems to me a austro-hungarn enamelled cigarette case with a Colombine painting, but opening it with better light and more time I...
It's a small(2") ivoire de Dieppe depicting Rousseau in the more used manner as you can found it on googlewith the papers and a walking stick.
I've found old pictures from ivory degradation with age and bad conservation, to show you the look have the growing lines in ivory. [IMG] [IMG]
Sèvres is a very interesting manufacture, I've the chance to work with a very good french expert about porcelain, and we have in Geneva a museum,...
Thanks, I try to found more about this value coin, the weight given by the zolotnik is by name made for precious metal(zolot for gold), but can...
I've read that the term zolotnik was an ancient coin, the value in grams for the zoltnik used as a quantity is 4.2658 grams. So long as I know...
Looking at the details of the painting, and the Sèvres mark, in my opinion it's a fantasy mark from the beginning of the 20th century, the word...
When you have ivory or composed items with ivory which have some value, the best thing to do if you want to sell them is to speak with big auction...
Yes, and the age is too difficult to proove, I don't know US laws but in Europe it's only in the land and between citizens, not for trade.
Yes, for me it makes a pattern which is corresponding to filigree on glass, not only silver applied or used for internal pattern, this is some...
They make the filigree on the surface with a fine coloured glass dot glued when hot and after stretched to make a pattern, yours isn't german...
A chinese part of a "pendant" as on the picture before, and ivory without any doubt, often pictures doesn't permit a so good identification but...
Seems like a mixt between Loetz iridescent lustre and venetian multi layers 50-60's glass, seems heavy, interesting search, it can be some studio...
Looking at the box if it's original, more around 1900 for me, this chess pieces design is used since 1850, if it's really rosewood no recently...
This is a precursor for the Cincinnati we use in workshop especially for things around watchmaking, normally they are in very used condition after...
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