In my own research, sometimes I have to take myself in hand & remember that not everything is to be found on the Internet, it just feels like it....
Maybe Dunne was an aide of some sort rather then the ambassador or other principal representative. I looked into the possibility that the writing...
Lieutenant Colonel, I suspect.
Don't know anything about the pottery, but when the crotch is so carefully covered that way, you can bet it is a boy. :happy:
Quite modern, looks like porcelain to me rather than stone, although Ms. Fig is correct that it resembles modern dyed agate pieces that are...
Googling 'walking bear silver' gets me buckles & bracelets with this motif, one very similar to the one Huntingtreasure showed us. Most seem to...
Using water buffalo as an example of a big boned bovine. Just addressing Aquitaine's concern over whether she has an ivory issue here or not.
It is made of some kind of bone, not ivory of any type. Probably some large bovine, like water buffalo.
Interesting, since searching for 'belfast medusa note' turns up things like this. [ATTACH] Probably should alert the keepers of the Medusa...
Might be just the thing for Colt's peacock-parrot lamp base.
The numbers all look like dates to me: Christmas 1881; 10 January 1931. Inside the wreath is a monogram, I think. See the same possibilities AJ...
That would be good for a golf course. Pomegranate & poppy pod are my other thoughts. [ATTACH]
On the other hand, you could have done worse. [IMG] This went for all of $55 4 years ago.
It looks like a light bulb to me?
In New York the Pier Antiques Show has folded while evidently the Armory Show can no longer afford the Armory is now using the piers. It's a big...
The dimensions are similar to this Cartier box, which seller says was for cigarettes. The little wingless figures are called putti (one is a...
What's the connection between Belfast & Medusa?
Maybe mother feels quite well now because she has found Christ, thanks be to God, i.e., she died. Sympathy notes are the sort of thing people keep.
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Yes, meant to look like pearls, but cut from the inner wall of some heavy type of shell. Not sure what species is used, but have a strand of them...
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