Don't take my word for it but it maybe French, the Green man isn't normally Italian and the dial looks French as well. Give me "carved to death"...
Really nice, would love to see close ups, it's all about the detail. Not you typical Vienna wall clock, far nicer.
The truth is I started collecting these well before the ivory ban thinking if I could assemble the whole set I might find the right box. I would...
TBH there's a few I don't have but your right, the one in the thread I don't have ;)
d[ATTACH] [ATTACH]I've been trying to collect all the puzzles to make a set for years.
Yeah it was lol
Here is your one https://www.puzzlemuseum.com/month/picm06/200611chinese2.htm
I have a number of these Chinese puzzles, I'll take a pic tomorrow, mine are ivory, I have 2 burr puzzles 1 with 6 pieces and the other with 12...
I suspect it's from a Chinese puzzle box, carved in Canton around 1820's. I think it's the ball on a stick one missing the ball and the base. Yes...
Doug Peat ;)
It could well have been peat but I remember when cleaning it it had a faint creosote smell and water with dish soap cleaned it but IPA didn't...
Like yours my is also walnut but unlike yours mine hung over (I suspect) a Scottish fire place where coal was their main source of fuel, it's...
It looks very fine to me, I love this sort of very skilled carving :) This is my plaque .......
Very nice piece, I might be tempted to get some walnut and fill the keyhole or find a lock and use it for a door again. I would say carved in...
I think the real talking point here is what value should have been put on this? IMHO I think the £400 it sold for was low, I would have put a...
For a long time dealers have known big pieces don't sell well, also £29,000 for a George the 3rd secretaire bookcase? Who in their right mind...
I get that you don't want to try a DIY restoration on such a fine box but bear in mind that if it doesn't work you don't have to glue it on. In...
My thoughts, it's not Cuban mahogany, Cuban mahogany is very dark and by the time this was made Cuban mahogany would have been the exterior wood...
This is a good article it does mention being able to make a key but doesn't make it clear if the key can be made without taking the lock apart or...
I have found around 70 keys for antique boxes in my time but never have I been lucky with a Bramah lock, without removing it from the box (this...
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