My first reaction was "Justinian's mother"; he was the Eastern Roman emperor at one point. IIRC he and his mother are both Orthodox saints.
Somebody got creative with a tree stump and a chainsaw from the look of it. The methane hole was a wise move...badump.
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I've heard of it, but not seen it. We Murricans don't tend to see that many old books unless we're collectors.
The envelopes were a collab or cachet envies; the two postal systems put out a joint issue or a sort of souvenir, from the looks of it. The USPS...
Pewter marks? Hanau marks?
Y'all would know European appraisal forms and laws better than I ever could. Since the appraisal form is so questionable, it throws the whole...
Linen barrel shade? Good riddance to that. It looks much happier now!
She surely would have if she had one handy.
My first thought was"big honkin' aquamarine" with blue topaz. Aquamarine is a beryl and shouldn't read as quartz, but unless I'm really mistaken...
Seconded. Pickard was a factory who didn't make their own blanks. These are from France, but at other times they used Lenox from the USA. Three...
It's begging for a discotheque to go dance in, and I hope the wearer put a tube top underneath.
Me too.
Dang that's familiar. CE ... maybe a retailer rather than a manufacturer? I know I've seen it before.
Hooo come to Mama! oh yeah, it already did.
LOL. THey're not wrong. Almost view-proof, but not wrong.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-amber-room-160940121/ Carted off by those wholesale looters and overall scumbags....
If the foam is a fire hazard and shot, reupholster away. They used to sell orange and brown nubby upholstry fabric in about that era. It wasn't...
If it's celluloid, that's not impossible. It's highly flammable. I'd take some baking soda and a q-tip, or just a good thumb, to those and find...
Abraham? These sorts of portraits regularly turned here up in Jewish houses decorated in the 60s and 70s . Some were Rabbis in full gear, and...
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