You're welcome. But not sure who would swagger with such a stick other than a character from Wind in the Willows. Toads rule! :)
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I'm seeing that stippled effect everywhere I look at an enlargement. Could you explain a bit more about this painting technique? Is the whole...
Are you thinking of buying this? It's not like the one in the photos you posted, it's the same one. Or are you selling under another name now?
You need to compare notes with this seller: http://www.ebay.com/itm/123709410405 [IMG]
The words available are definitely more like French than like any of the other Romance languages.
The amphibian climbing the side is a frog; the two on the end are toads. Was once in a hospital CEO's office that had frogs all over the place....
The whole thing looks uncomfortable for use as a handle in either application. Swagger stick, maybe? It just doesn't seem like something most...
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I think it is a walking stick head because A) the toads & frog would be upside down when a parasol was in use & B) a lady of the day would not be...
'Box purse' does a good job of finding them on Google, although some you will get are cigar box purses, another genre of the time.
Of course, this is probably the most comet-like orientation: [IMG] but the head downward position means gravity is working against the pin. I...
I have a magnifying glass with a handle carved in 'natural material' that I bought as a gift for my late mother back in the 70s, but the handle...
Glad you showed that. It pushes me toward stone.
I was having the same problem. On the bottom, at 9 o'clock, are those bubbles or just imperfections in the stone that were smoothed over? That...
Third piece, the pendant with yellow & green stones, is quite modern. Have seen similar jewellery coming out of India but also, I think,...
Think the first one goes with the stone on top & would fall into the Halley's comet family of brooches. The cameo is W. German glass, but brooch...
I may be quite wrong. Just when you think some color or color combination couldn't possibly occur in nature, you find out it can. These beads...
'Uncle Sam Lady Liberty dolls' seems to be a good place to start searching.
Evidently something that way, comparable to Byne's in things like sea- & egg shells that are based on calcium carbonate, corrosion due to...
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