Hung or attached, but meant to be readily removable, not a permanent fixture, although the holes where it went would have to be. At the top, is...
Good Heavens! How did you know her? Looked her up & she was quite something, sadly, dying at age 39. So journey, you can see yours is a copy of...
Is it only the white places that actually have any depth? I have seen this: what are basically prints or transfers, touched up with white paint...
Everyone looks much better fed than in this version.
They can be hand painted & still be copies. 'Savini' could be Alfonso Savini, don't know about the other two. All 3 'signatures' look to me like...
Well DeAnne, you said it.
Synthetic alexandrite, lab grown color change chrysoberyl, was not on the market until the 1970s, so think that can be ruled out. A lot of the...
All I know is, That's a crock. :joyful:
In a BBC radio feature on Simone de Beauvoir, was very surprised to hear that when Sartre arranged 'an appointment' with her, to meet her socially...
Wiki says of Green: In the 1790s, however, several of his international speculations failed and in 1798 he was declared bankrupt. The painting...
Here's a brass spider shell decoration. Not sure what the metal of yours would be to have any iron in it. [IMG]
We had a discussion on buttons starting on pg 712, with kyratango's set. She included a link to an article explaining how many buttons in a set,...
I love that only 2 of all those buttons are buttoned. I say no; he has to be the author of the original image. This would be a bit like making a...
There is a degree of similarity with this one. Hornberg, but clearly marked. [IMG]
Invisible deer?
When it comes to the Renaissance, think you might as easily have found one on a man's finger. And ones given to women in any period pretty likely...
I do not recall ever seeing a ring with a compartment from Imperial Roman times or earlier. The search at the link is for 18th century rings; the...
Despite their shared etymology, I don't think domino masks have much in common with the idea of a dominatrix!
It looks to me like the eye holes of the mask are actually holes that go through to the compartment underneath. Guessing you put a photo there...
My feeling is that it is for counting, or otherwise keeping track of prayers, but I do not know enough about Jewish prayer traditions to say how...
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