I like the blacksmith one - odd for a joolie, but it's the honest piece that looks how it was meant to look.
What about sodium bicarbonate? That's all I ever used. 1 damp cotton swab, dunked in baking soda. Rub hard on the back and the q-tip/swab...
No matter.. last coins in the purse well spent.
I took a scissors to it. It would be a pig to replace given what the framing shop did - got all fancy. Alas I saw a Philipps head screw in there...
I suppose I can open the back, but it's papered over. If I'd done that in the first place I'd already know for sure. I suppose since I'm keeping...
David Harper? Never heard of a Drew Harper. As for ugly - if the dealer can make a buck on it, who cares?
I don't think it is either. The other one Debora found is though, without a doubt. Either way it's going up on my wall. I was wondering about...
I was going to say glass for sure. It's too old for lucite and there's no way that's a rock.
This small oil turned up last week in a charity thrift attached to a food bank. The thought it was a print but...nope. At least I don't think it...
It's... odd, to be generous.
That's what I was thinking.
The leaf design was common here in the 50s and 60s. Not used much if at all in the 20s and 30s.
Dates? I'd think 1905-1920 or close enough. They were still selling similar here well into the 1920s, even after Deco blew into town.
Probably made as a baby gift.
One would hope he'd mis-describe the price to be 10% of what they generally go for, but most times sellers go the other way.
I just snagged an undated one, but the dust on the glass was older than that!
I was watching a Youtube vid done by one of the Antiques Alley presenters, and it seems at least one Japanese dealer is already doing it. Brown...
I'd say early to mid-50s on the last two. The red set has a patent number on the back. The brown ones are 70s or later, so unlikely to be...
It's even getting harder to find the antiques where I live. Younger people are looking for younger things, and true antiques often aren't viable...
I thought it was Sanskrit, but my knowledge of Southeast Asian languages is suspect at best.
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