Well lookee there! What on earth is that for?
I meant Brenda. :-)
What a great thread! Bookmarking...
Great name, by the way! Welcome! :cat:
Sorry...Is it possible to get a side view? I'm curious about the protrusion on the front...
There are a lot of different critters there, mostly quartz. It's hard to tell without closer pics or, preferable, being able to touch them. Some...
That's lovely!
They appear carved and polished to me. Couldn't say why...Maybe abstract art. Or maybe someone started out carving cabochons from it, got...
I don't think it's selfish at all. Your family history is most important to the family. Maybe you could convince him to donate a couple of photos...
A fellow Marylander! He has some nice work. I'm surprised he doesn't list his bronze sculpture on the site. Have to bookmark him, and see if I...
There's another Challenger frog here:https://beta.liveauctioneers.com/item/31931965_bronze-frog-sculpture
Want kitty... :cat:
After she finished it, Mom said she thought it looked awful. But Dad put the frame on it, and hung it in their room. I love it because she did it. :)
Most things eventually do go the way of the auction. I recently sold a vase my mom had, a piece I thought she had purchased in an antique store....
I wonder how many little girls begged their papas to buy Blackwell's... This is interesting to me, because my parents insisted upon buying...
I'm guessing the humidity didn't help them any. We have a handful of ancestral photos from the deep South, pre-1900, but they were brought to...
Except for the handle, it reminds me of some Stevens and Williams I've seen. I don't know whether they marked all their pieces or not.
I think the blue one is a hanging vase, like these: http://www.thisnext.com/item/03C2565D/Glass-Hanging-Vases
Having painstakingly pulled up scads of wisteria from my side yard last year only to have even more spring up this spring, I concur. I have much...
Maybe it's a pathetic attempt to sculpt a Persian, or some other smoosh-faced cat.
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