Very nice, that is a lovely deep green. Don't show it to my wife, please.......
Welcome!
Greetings!
I am pretty good at online searches, and there is a great deal of material online; some of it contradictory however. I too find it fascinating,...
Sorry to ramble on and on, but the literature does go on. The link about Leadbeater provides this mention of a Ph.D. thesis on the portraits,...
As you will discover if you research Theosophy very deeply, the later Theosophists began to fight amongst themselves; thus C.W.Leadbeater claimed...
The Theosphists were fond of such stories; see another story of magical drawings of the Masters, this time by Mr. Schmiechen, but otherwise quite...
I suspect that these are hand-drawn copies, or perhaps the originals, of a series of "portraits of the Masters" produced through semi-magical...
Welcome; a lot of us are ramblers.
Yes, or other plastic/acrylic; there are and were several "pearlescent" types available. The general style does look very similar to some of the...
Welcome! (Speaking of chess, have you seen the movie "Queen of Katwe" about a Ugandan chess prodigy, based on her true story? I found it quite...
Antler would be a good possibility, perhaps more so than opercula. So the shanks are carved from the same pieces, not attached? And the...
A good hint! I hadn't read it before going out to view the eclipse (or posting), so I was totally surprised.
Not my photo, but example of crescent-shaped eclipse shadows: [ATTACH]
Opercula are often sold to the beading/jewelry trade as "Cat's eye shells." Compare...
Don't know about age, but one possibility might be that these are opercula (not the ones used by NW Coast natives though). That is, the little...
Separate names with a comma.
