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If NA made, think more likely to be Navajo. They do serious inlay work & these stones are favorites.
That's what I have too. Originally bought it on recommendation of an eBay dealer of Zuni fetishes who takes great photos of her small wares....
Looks like it goes beyond the animals of the Chinese zodiac. It's like a combination scholar's stone & Noah's Ark.
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Random, sometimes redundant remarks. Being a diamond & having a chip are not mutually exclusive states. 'Hardness' is rated by what can scratch...
It's not a name; it's something like patent applied for.
I definitely see 'Jas.' or 'Jav.' as the abbreviated first name of this Delfosse.
I'm not sure whether a simple acid test is able to differentiate between 800, 835, 900 & 925 silver.
[ATTACH] Every time the topic of testing precious metals with acid comes up I read eagerly. I have still never tried it myself, feeling I don't...
If you follow the link at the end of that article, you learn that you've just missed an exhibition & a calendar. Your sculpture could have been a...
The second one looks like a medicine bottle that has undergone the color change that can happen with weathered glass. I can imagine the handle &...
Brian Willsher. https://www.invaluable.com/artist/willsher-brian-9g179ovely/sold-at-auction-prices/
Pix are great. We prefer them full size, not as thumbnails. You can still edit your post & change to full size under More Options.
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My parents did a lot of square dancing in the 1950s.
He lived to be how old? If the death year is correct, that would put him in the frame for this painting.
It's the rare artist who can get all 4 fingers + the thumb in the same view & not have it look like Mickey Mouse's gloves. One of the reasons the...
A lot like a photo studio portrait of my mother (who hated those big hair bows) when she was about 7, which would have been 1933. The chemise...
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