Just for the education of the many of us who are not versed in the arcana of Chinese rank badges, what does this one signify?
It does already have 1 bid, despite almost 8 days ahead of auction. Is that you? If not, you are right that others also see it as convincing...
Exactly. This is the main thing the right auction house can do for you: publicize your items targeting them to known buyers for such items. If a...
Think the cameos are supposed to be of the Mädchen type. Poor pic, but this sort of thing (nose is chipped): [ATTACH]
Without a better look at them, it's difficult to be completely sure, but I think they really are stone, or possibly glass, but not resin:...
The chain I wear him on is too short for me to really see him, no matter how far down I tuck my chin. Don't want him swinging out & banging into...
Hello, Blues. Without at least a general idea of the sort of thing you are talking about, we are extremely limited in any guidance we might be...
Helluva Jell-o mold!
By this: did you mean just their scrawled tag? Or is the piece itself marked as 14K? It's very difficult, when someone has been told by an...
I have inveighed repeatedly about jeweller/appraisers & the nonsense they produce concerning cameos, but they are usually fairly reliable in the...
Think it is Hennie, not Henrie, probably short for Henrietta. If previous owner was like my mother, she put little notes like this into pieces...
A limited edition print made for the 'World Treasure Society' from a poster that was made for an exhibition held in 1979. The poster was made...
It looks a bit like the way dolphins were once portrayed in art:...
Think the first initial is T, not J. Since 'tin' seems to mean 'pewter' or be a constituent part of the word for pewter, maybe it's T&G Pewter, &...
Interesting. The one I have has a very sharp tip.
Could it mean something like 'thrice valiant'?
Two-handled chamber pots seem to be much more the exception than the rule.
I know somewhere I showed these detail photos of the ivory-look frame of a similar piece of mine. It has a miniature reproduction of Raphael's...
Hello, Greg. Before we go off looking for a lid, is your grandfather certain it ever had one? Not sure they were standard issue.
You definitely can't always judge a cameo by the company it keeps. In the academic glyptics world, anything post-Renaissance is 'modern'. Was...
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