Welcome, Paul. I see you've already begun to help out around here. We look forward to further contributions from your knowledge & experience and...
Welcome, garageguy. I would look to slightly different parts of the Middle East/North Africa. I'm getting a Bedouin vibe. @Any Jewelry - thoughts?
Uh oh. Them's fighting words around here.
The oxidation/verdigris is consistent with copper-containing bronze, also with brass. The exterior looks artificially patinated.
When we can't immediately come up with a good answer, we tend to get off topic. This isn't my area but I like the bowl. Had to look up Hakuichi...
Wonder if she tended to hold her lips slightly parted as shown in several of the portraits.
Was hoping you would add your cameo. You can see even in the paintings when she is quite young that she had a tendency to be zaftig. All those...
I have no idea what this is & would have liked to examine in person, but threw in my max & alas, got sniped. It looks, at first glance, like a...
Would you say they're a bit prickly?
It is, haven't seen one quite like it. Would have been better to mount it the other way up so that gravity would work with the mechanism to help...
I blame Global Warming. :)
'Cameo Corner' is rather famous, if any shop specializing in cameos can be 'famous' exactly. I keep a file of cameos with dates so I can compare...
Can you see the other name as Donadio?
Merci, Madame. It's really some of his better work; too bad it fractured. Someone did a good job at chipping out the figure. There were little...
Thanks, you two. There is a slight bump in the shell so it's a bit convex under the roses, giving a greater sense of depth. Having bid on the...
I don't know if it has any bearing on age that they used MA instead of MASS as the state abbreviation.
My fingers type 'cameo' nearly every time I want to put 'came', & of course nothing spell check can do about it. We all also tend to read what we...
Davey will give you correct info when he's awake. I don't participate on Coin Talk, so haven't checked if it also has an Introductions thread....
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