I like the Certainty of Death one too. "Hope of grace and pardon (escape?) don't have a place in Pluto's heart."...or thereabouts.
I'd think so too. They have to do similar for some prosthetic makeup.
1900-ish? Holds about 50 people, tops? That's how they built them in rural farming communities.
The first one is definitely as sash buckle. The second one does seen to have black dots behind the paste bits and the pin stem is right. I wish...
It might be student work, just to complicate things. J Lalic? Jalie? T. Latie? 1968 is all I'm sure of.
Not sure what to call that - some sort of amber/rootbeer swirl. i can smell it from here though!
pack it away safely...somewhere Ghopper and Tallcakes can't reach! :D
None in that you can't sell either.
Sure. I don't think it can be posted though. The total ban isn't everywhere, but it's restricted. As for woods, don't give them ideas....
Someone sliced up a building brick and put it on a plate? ((confused look))
That explains the brass pinback; the makers were using what was available.
I had a gander, and anything full of dried fruit might be worth a try.
Old farts like me use a black scratch "stone" and 18k gold acid. I scrape the silver-colored metal on the stone until there's enough to see...
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I had to google rock cakes.(LOL)
I didn't know Jensen made anything here in the USA, unless there was another company.
I think you can sell to a museum, but otherwise it's not safe. They're 'protecting elephants' buy not allowing the sale of antique artwork. Go...
We get the carved mass-produced ones on a good day. Nice pieces like that only turn up in fine antique stores, and then rarely. If they're ivory...
Not a trick I'd want to try either. I wonder if the work cost more in labor than the box was worth monetarily.
Seconded or thirded. Generally, a cake plate has a sloping edge that goes down, so you can get a server under it easily and lift the cake off...
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