Fascinating collection. Churchill signature looks like the real thing. If you have the envelopes be sure to keep them with the relevant letter for...
Have not had chance to try to identify pattern but these were mass produced and no reason to suspect a reproduction. Many 19thC plates do survive...
Hi Jolly, could you post a photo of the right hand cup's entire handle to include join with cup please. If no one already has I will then check...
Not sure why but shape of pot is niggling me and the wear doesnt look quite right. But have had a hard day and it may just be me!
Most later Worcester is marked. I would agree with Bear that they are most likely Continental. Bases do not look like Worcester to me.
Now Komo, what did it slot into? :p:D
Yes, that may be it. I've tried it with a torch and there is a faint glow visible, just not sure how decorative it would be
Porcelain, semi translucent. 5 1/4" tall, soot marks internally. Was it a lamp chimney, or used to warm something, or vaporise? Or something else....
Made a hearth rug with readicut wool with one of those hooks. Nothing compared to my father, who made ladies stockings for Kayser Bondor post WWII
Slight differences to trees but essentially the same as my piece. The hounds have the fox. So, yes, The Kill
I do not know :( But if you post two more photos to cover the entire scene and tag me again, I will check the scene.
We used to have a microscope that would display on our pc. So annoying that the software stopped being recognised on one of the many windows...
Thanks CX, she was in among several other figurines and wasnt catalogued so the lot went cheaply. You can read about Ruth (and Albany for whom...
Ruth van Ruyckevelt Manhattan porcelain figurine on bronze plinth [IMG]
Ah! Seems they may have been wrong in their description. I am told that it is actually General Havelock & Sir Colin Campbell, Indian Mutiny period
Nothing apart from what appears to be painted 281
Photo with backlight [IMG]
Bronwen, will post better photo in the morning. Sorry I did not realise it was a lithophane.
Kicking myself! Sold lots of lithophane before, so why did it not occur to me to shine a light through it?
Just tried it with a torch. You are right! Clear head with hair and a crown. Will try to take a better photo in the morning.
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