I'd wear it and cheerfully. You'll find a lady close to home who will tag it and bag it.
Duking it out in the back slipway with the Hippopotamus and the Hypotenuse?
Amen to that.
Those look like 46-star flags, if so the photos date between 1907 and 1912 if that's any help. If they're 45 star we're back 1896-1907, dead bang...
I saw one at the estate sale this morning, but it was tourist costume. They wanted US$18 for it, i.e. a LOT more than it was worth. Mine is...
The ones on the side of the bowl sure do.
I have a couple of them; they're still being made. All costume now of course, for the tourists. I've never seen one in silver, although they...
The chain is 20th century Guatemalan or thereabouts. Added later, a lot later.
IIRC they often come in sets of multiple sizes, but that's a "dim bells" sort of IIRC. It does look to be the proper shape.
A very short-lived line, at that. Many things are called Juliana but vanishingly few actually are.
Oddly that does not surprise me. No one there would know what the name means or what it sells for. Today I found some scrap silver and scrap...
It's entirely possible that the photo was taken there to show to a prospective bridegroom in California. Also possible it was taken in...
It was worth a shot.
Is she a tintype, or a photo on paper?
Colorful and stinky. What's not to like?
Those candlesticks must have been dirty. Sure are pretty now though.
Or baking soda and plain old tap water on a q-tip. Dunk the q-tip in water and squeeze off the extra. Dunk in baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)....
I think Vienna is the location. Leonard apparently was an importer in New York who brought porcelain in from Austria and other places. China...
I'm wondering if this wasn't sold blank, and the Dresden isn't the painter's mark.
My late dad taught me on a 120 twin lens that was older than I was. You had to cock the shutter and there was no light meter. Straight load film.
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