You paid a reasonable price. She has many, many sisters. Note the auction house does not specify material.
It's not lava. It is a high quality, mass produced piece. We have discussed these: Gatierre, Danbiere & Other Mysteries
Looks really comprehensive. Have never seen a cookbook with thumb tabs like a dictionary before. Are the recipes for the cuisine of any...
Given how strongly all the other lines of the initials are incised, I think it is CM, with the horizontal line in the middle of the C being one of...
That's another 12K mark, the only one shown almost right way up.
There's the chance that Giorgio Pichi, Jeweller, had a shop that sold objets de vertu in addition to jewellery. I'd be reluctant to mess with the...
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Looks like a bad design for an inkwell but a good one for a mustard pot. You just need the little spoon to go with it.
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This is not identical to yours, but yours is the same sort of thing, a plaster casting of the Diana of Versailles.
Jet. You will not see brooch findings screwed directly into the body this way. Edit: you will not see it on glass.
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[ATTACH] Asking out of complete ignorance: would Bakelite look like this under the surface? And I think I see several different surface...
I'm quite chuffed to have my post seconded by your esteemed self. :)
It's from the series Harcourt Brace Modern Classics, so publication was long enough after the original for Babbit to have become a modern classic.
The Portland Vase was shattered even though in a case (pre-plexiglass) & not by a child. Guess too much booze can make a child of anyone.
Thank you. Now I'll be aware & less likely to confuse it with French marks.
@DragonflyWink Is this that same fox head mark that came up in connection with the locket brooch?
Maybe there was some sort of preparatory coating they could put on? Or the paint used was different? I'm just pulling things out of the air.
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