Blood donor pin? Edit: I'm not so much asking as voting for this choice.
I think if they were really antique the putti wouldn't be wearing pareos. Might be a bowdlerized knockoff of ones that were genuinely old.
Do I detect incisive wit at work here?
The wings add another figure to the mix. I showed an ancient depiction of her in the prie dieu thread. Here's how she came to be shown later on:...
Maybe Doris is the name of the dolphin.
I'm totally with evelyb30, don't think there can be any doubt.
To be precise about it, the initials are embroidered individually on little pre-made patches & then the patches are sewn into the lining this way....
Machine made. Was thinking 60s - far out, man - but in looking at hinge & clasp, think a little earlier & go with AJ. Has a 50s feel to me.
On the thread about the baffling prie dieu, q.v., 2 suggestions for the decoration came up: the Green Man & the North Wind. It also looks like...
And real fur. Fakes were not very sophisticated then. Also, you didn't get your initials sewn in to fake fur; it was routine with real pieces.
So glad you jumped in, was thinking of tagging you. I did the Q&D kind of research by Googling for images of prie dieux by countries, centuries &...
I don't think there's a narrative. Each seems to represent a different occupation. That's about all I can say, except welcome. There are others...
Walnut is the wood that seems to be used for a lot of them. Think the style is most like Renaissance revival.
Helps rule out possibility that it is an imitation made somewhere else. Looking again through images of prie dieux from various countries &...
Kronos got that explanation in while I was typing. Aha! Once the cigarettes start feeding from lower down the pyramid, how do you know when one...
I did note that the curvature on the finished end of the slide would be good for holding/pushing a cigarette. But that just looks to me like a...
It was how a cigarette would pop up that I couldn't work out. And in listings for others that use the 'slide' as a stand, couldn't figure out why...
I was just starting to wonder whether, went back & saw AJ already suggested it, the slide inserts into the slot in the bottom, which looks smaller...
Well, you know, Snow is always a little bit flaky.
Gild it & sell it to POTUS for one of his fine establishments.
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