Definitely a manufacturer's mark, but far too new for me to know whodunnit.
I vote: some dude in Murano got drunk one night and...
I think it looks, more or less, like a peacock too.
Terry didn't do things by halves this trip. Yike.
Sure does. My eyes went right to the ginbari brooch of course, because I have a thing for Japanese enamels. Whoever sold those spoons for...
Why I will be less sad to miss some estate sales this weekend. I walked into my local Ill Will and found the giant kinda-sorta cocktail glass....
You'd better believe I have my eyes out for those! Preferably full of goodness.
And if yours isn't a repro....BINGO! Even repop goes for a good bit.
I don't think it's as old as it wants to be. The silvertone looks like what they do now, and the bullet cabs don't look like the old ones. It...
Now if only estate sales would get with the program. Those high stairs front door entrances need to GO.
Beats having it end in the landfill/tip. The folks between 40 and 65 tend to have disabilities like mine that limit career choices, especially...
It was a Thing. Dawg help us. :yuck::p:p:p:p
I'd have said the designers were working while toasted, or just brain-dead. Or American.:D
I'd guess Austrian, but ... dANg!
1950s/60s Goofy is what I'd file them under. Any resemblance to any national dress is purely accidental.
...and that's why most dealers are retired old farts with a 401-k, Social Security and Medicare. In the USA anyway.
No records of anyone getting sick from it; they must have boiled the germs to death.
I have some of those too - bought as trophies, but not my style.
One step up on "cowboy coffee". Put the green beans in your cast iron skillet. Roast them. Remove from fire and break up with your rifle butt....
I wasn't, actually, referring to yours. The safety pin catch I was thinking of turns up on European (mostly) brooches around 1910. Safety...
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