Went looking for folk art bears & found this ambitious listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/233652909029
Yes, a little keris with a bone & turquoise handle. AJ is our go-to person for these.
There are the correct terms, & then there are the terms the average seller is more likely to use that help you find other similar items in an...
Second way up looks more promising to me. E. Janz? Tanz? Otherwise, Czuo? F. In my world signatures sometimes have the letter 'F' after the...
The stoppers all sit at different heights in the necks, so some replacements there.
For search purposes try boulder opal turtle fetish. Very nice. The tiny ones are really harder to do than bigger ones.
Sometimes to be sure I have to compare back & forth between the material I'm testing & artificial material with the same appearance. Coral, for...
Odysseus is probably right, unless artist just meant to celebrate Greece's seafaring history in a more general way. I would go with Odysseus. I...
From your description as very heavy & shiny like a mirror, they do sound quite a bit like hematite, although 'jet black' doesn't fit. All the...
You are welcome. As komo said, I'm the cameo guru in these parts.
Hello, ryan Kirk gregory. Not exactly treasure, as you've noted the metal is not high quality, although it's possible it's unmarked 800 silver....
Better, less confusing, to tag a mod & ask for a thread to be moved than to create a duplicate thread.
Duplicate: Ebony Smokers Cabinet By G H CLARK.......Valuation.........Please Help
Yes, it's their known provenance tracing them back to the kid brother that makes them valuable in a way they would not be if of unknown origin....
Can't help feeling there's a Quran stand in there somewhere.
I find it unlikely that someone who did so well spacing other words would not have started farther left if the intention was to write out Wallace,...
Is it just an effect of slightly different angles of viewing or are the upper edges of each little pot slightly different from the other?
I followed my suspicion that first name is one I've seen before, Hideo, even though it doesn't much look like it as written.
Provenance is a wonderful thing.
Could it be be Dean Jones? Last bit looks like Woll... to me. I regularly see brooches made with miniatures on porcelain because people tend to...
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