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Of course it's yours to do with as you please and I know you only paid very little but I wouldn't do anything with it apart from maybe waxing it...
Nice flag, good on you
I love this, what a fantastic find (ukiyo-e), I suspect this is early, before 1870's. Very nice thing.
I'll be the first to admit my spelling and writing is terrible, I've never been academic in anyway, despite this I've managed to be as successful...
Well at least now you can say "natural material". I still think 1920's, you would expect natural material to be earlier.
It's very hard to tell, I've always used the hot pin test, sometimes I think the pin will never go in and it does and sometimes I'm shocked to...
BTW the word is "Hoshiarpur" not "Hoshiapur" ;)
BTW I phoned the FB seller about the carved Indian box and he's been ill so won't be sent out until Saturday :( so at least Tuesday before I find...
No, just dyslexic (like all the great minds ;) )
Original finish to the box, I would say 1920-30's, continental Europe (French German), as a box collector I can't help noticing all the screw...
I'm not saying there isn't any damage. I don't think I've seen one that doesn't have some missing piece. These carved boxes are notorious for...
I don't know if there is damage at all or if it's just the way it's carved but I might be missing something?
That would be perfect, thank you. I have a store up the road that sells all manor of brushes, I bet they sell those, I'll go up there later and...
I was wondering about that, I did ask if there was any damage and he said there wasn't but I did pay about 10% of it's true value so if it has...
BTW this writing slope is turning out to be a real pig of a restoration, it's not the dismantling of the joints, it's the cleaning. I've been at...
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