*shrugs* More photos of the item required.... [ATTACH]
Are you suggesting my suggested measures are extreme...???;)
Quite right.... In that case, my suggestion for the best possible method to preserve your items, would be to vacuum seal them inside a glass jar....
Just for your future information, it is always a good idea to post a photo of the full top and the full underside and side to illustrate the...
hehe, yes, sorry I couldn't be of more actual help.:p
I do enjoy languages yes...
You need to change Google Translate over to Japanese, then it will translate to Orient. In Chinese, it translates in Google Translate to Toyo,...
東洋 = Orient Beyond that, I'm afraid I don't know much about these, apart from them being cute. :cat:
These are the three gentlemen you seek. Nikolai Gogol (Николай Гоголь) A Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin. [IMG] Taras Hryhorovych...
UV Filtering Window Tint works great, I have those installed, did that myself, not that difficult nor expensive. I then tested the UV with a UV...
The photo of the underside, is that a maker mark of some sort, or just a smushed up part of the making of the pot?
That's a hard call to make from a photo. It looks in extremely good condition for its age, if it is ancient. There's also no sign of patina that...
Sorry, I can't read that, it's not a modern day character, could be seal script or another character of an era in between. Though not one I am...
Well, it is cloisonné. 老天 = God 利剌 = Profit
Or at the very least the strap may be a later addition to the powder horn. As for the discs, it's rather hard to say from a photo... They don't...
I found another example to share with you. An Indian cloth-covered powder horn (Barutdan), 18th century, Nautilus-shaped wooden body, covered...
It's an Indian style, 19th century, powder horn, for holding gun powder.
The coin with the double dragons on the reverse is most likely to be a reproduction as the genuine coins are rare and usually not in as good a...
宮本 = Miyamoto - (the maker) 銀 = Silver I'm sorry, I just cant read the last character, my eyes are killing me. I shall try again later.
Yes, the Japanese kanji characters are of different fish that are eaten as sushi or sashimi.
Separate names with a comma.
