Note that thousands of different patterns and styles of baskets are made on Lombok, so you may have to wade through many pages of search results,...
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That was my impression of the exceptionally smooth patina also.
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Canadian First Nations people would cut slabs from a chunk of BC jade by rubbing it with an appropriately-shaped piece of wood, using sand as an...
Interesting. So the vocal part does have words written in eventually; it is likely that the repetition of the first violin part, in the first...
That's exactly what I think also. I have a few small areas of knowledge, but I just love to learn and research things. There are so many...
I'd agree, boar (or warthog, same thing); not a protected species; and looks like India would be a possible origin.
The instrumentation looks a lot like a string quartet with added vocal line; first and second violins, viola, and a bass line which would usually...
Welcome! I do think you would get more replies if you posted the lamp in a separate thread.
Welcome Kevin; and Muffy says Hi to Bent Twig.
Yikes, $2 for an authentic piece of pre-1900 Americana, amazing! I simply googled "Pines battle cane" or some such; a long shot, but there it was....
Some more info at http://thepastwhispers.com/Battle_of_Seven_Pines_photos.html and a photo-postcard of Lyne: [ATTACH]
And another one, with the wording a little clearer:...
here's a comparable: the description is clearly not the same stick, but one with secondary flexible branches coiled around the central shaft....
Yes; that's one of the things that makes me think it might likely date to the centennial, in 1962, rather than to the time of the actual battle,...
I'd have to say this is a fantasy item, not a replica of any actual artifact, and not native-made. I wouldn't worry about the type of bone; the...
I did not mean to cause any issues; intent was to point out that because such items are still being made today, there is no way to date the...
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