Gilding was often done in a factory. The rest was done in factory, by professionals working for themselves, or by hobbyists. Some women made a...
I saw two plates today that I almost bought. They were hand-painted and the designs were Deco. This work was still going on for quite a while.
Be careful you don't start speaking in Parseltongue when you're wearing that.
People still did it occasionally into the 50s and 60s, so it's possible.
Found pictures of Chrerry Tree. It's not similar at all. The first one may work and may not; the Etsy souce piece is sold and no longer on the...
As long as I'm first in line!
On second look, I think the OP's are ballroom dancers. The swirlies and odd body positions make sense for that.
You never can tell. I was in a house today where one might have turned up, but...nope. A piece of a hand-painted Korean screen turned up on the...
Hand painted. It's good enough that it might have been done in the factory.
It looks like a Shona carving to me too. I think it's supposed to be two lovers.
Meanwhile, anything I've ever seen here in that line is Pier One or World Market in origin, i.e. mass-produced.
Some telephone freak would love to have those. If you're selling, leave them as found and let the buyer mess with them. Fabric-covered wire...
(LOL) I'll never tell!
Me either. It's hand-painted, or so it looks from here, but the colors are only kinda-sorta right. The design isn't right at all. Beyond that...
They often are, but so are pieces from Hong Kong. Some older German pieces are glass, but as the 50s and 60s wore on they went to plastics.
OOoh pretty! I'd have been excited to find that sitting unloved too. Not to mention a heavy gold ring for costume prices.
On second glance, the back doesn't look as old as the front. Purpose-built maybe.
So that's where the finds went! I went to a church rummage sale that used to be OK. This time, the former jewelry tables could have been table,...
It's not like it doesn't work. No good for metric stuff of course.
The dresses are newer than the dolls. Then again, there were kits around for making a doll and her clothes. The hair on the old ones I'm familiar...
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