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    Can anyone identify this?

    Would that make it a... smoking chair, then?
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Apr 28, 2020 in forum: Furniture
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    Lace Lesson #2 Handmade Bedsfordshire vs Machine Bedsfordshire

    Yes please, Leslie! More of the same would be wonderful (although if you have time and inclination, I'd love tutorials on different hand made lace...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Apr 19, 2020 in forum: Textiles, Needle Arts, Clothing
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    Lace Lesson #2 Handmade Bedsfordshire vs Machine Bedsfordshire

    Leslie--thanks so very much for this wonderful tutorial! I've learned so much from you and really appreciate you taking the time to share your...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Apr 19, 2020 in forum: Textiles, Needle Arts, Clothing
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    In Normal Times I'd Be Yearning To Attend This Estate Sale

    If you don't mind me asking, what's a "railroader"?
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Mar 17, 2020 in forum: Antique Discussion
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    Help with identifying a silverplate kangaroo figurine, please

    Thanks for your advice re the polling option, Any Jewelry--and for your "very cool" comment, which made me laugh out loud!!
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Mar 11, 2020 in forum: Silver
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    Help with identifying a silverplate kangaroo figurine, please

    Thanks @DragonflyWink and @flipper. I have looked at every Stewart Dawson kangaroo I could find online before posting and none of them matched the...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Mar 11, 2020 in forum: Silver
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    Help with identifying a silverplate kangaroo figurine, please

    [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hello everyone--I'd really appreciate your help in identifying...
    Thread by: PortableTreasures, Mar 11, 2020, 6 replies, in forum: Silver
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    Is this a Russian or Mexican Icon or Retablo?

    She reminds me of the patroness of cuba. Google "Our Lady of charity" and/or "Our Lady of el Cobre (our lady of copper--to do with copper mines on...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Mar 7, 2020 in forum: Antique Discussion
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    Italian Micromosaic bracelet - 30's?

    What a gorgeous find--good eye! And it looks to be really intact, too, which makes your find even more wonderful! Thanks for sharing it with us.
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Feb 8, 2020 in forum: Jewelry
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    Alter Frontal?

    It looks to me to be filet crochet... given that there are no recognisable Christian motifs on your lovely textile, I'd question whether it was an...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 28, 2020 in forum: Textiles, Needle Arts, Clothing
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    Need help to identify an old red pottery jug/pot ...Solved - Mexican olla de barro (bean pot)

    This particular pot is used for cooking beans--and they taste really is so much better than when they're cooked in metal saucepans!
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 27, 2020 in forum: Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain
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    Maija Carlson, Oy Kumela Pulled Feather Vase - Mislabeled

    Oh what a beautiful piece! And a lovely display of tenacity in your searching!
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 21, 2020 in forum: Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain
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    ID signature on mushroom watercolor

    Batik is a fabric made using wax resist methods. The artist paints hot wax onto the fabric and lets it cool, then dips the fabric into dye....
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 17, 2020 in forum: Art
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    Napier Sterling/yes or no.

    Thanks @terry5732 -- I hadn't realised there was a difference in tarnish rate between sterling and plate. Explains a lot of things i've seen here...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 9, 2020 in forum: Jewelry
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    Napier Sterling/yes or no.

    @ineedhelp--I'll try Herman's for sure. All this yellowplate of mine is driving me mad! Thanks!!
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 9, 2020 in forum: Jewelry
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    Napier Sterling/yes or no.

    @i need help -- thanks for your reply. I really did think it was just me and that yellowing. Sorry to impose on you again--but do you use a cloth...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 9, 2020 in forum: Jewelry
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    Napier Sterling/yes or no.

    @ineedhelp. I find the same with Wright's and my silverplate--everything acquires a yellow tinge after less time than is warranted after all the...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 9, 2020 in forum: Jewelry
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    Table runner, where from and when?

    Looks Mexican and hand embroidered, which is lovely. I'm guessing a made-for-tourists piece. I'm not sure how colour fast those threads will be...
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 8, 2020 in forum: Textiles, Needle Arts, Clothing
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    Mexican Plate

    I'm not so sure it's Mexican. The hats they're wearing seem more Peruvian, to me. Isidoro pottery is much more finely drawn than the image here, too.
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 4, 2020 in forum: Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain
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    help with gold bowl

    Could it have originally been a caviar bowl, with the stand made at a later date?
    Post by: PortableTreasures, Jan 4, 2020 in forum: Antique Discussion
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