Then Peter knows that what brings advertisers is traffic & that what brings traffic is the breadth & depth of the knowledge members offer the site...
In terms of the imagery, it is a bit of a mix of neoclassical elements: the poet figure with a kithara; the regally seated feminine audience trio;...
To command that kind of money, this miniature must be painted; nevertheless, it is 'after' the Asti original:...
Probably hidden in embarrassment at having taken it for gold.
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You need to connect with @James Conrad. He put up a 'tavern table' just in the last day or so....
Hello Jaime, You don't look so old as all that. Just think how much wisdom you still have time to develop. That's what we do here, share...
Think we have that sorted. Now, does anyone else wonder whether the version of the handle with the talons holding a carnelian ball is the way...
As often happens when I go back & look at something again, I see it quite differently. Yes, I can see that the first line of the label does say...
I'm thoroughly confused about which photos show the item as is & which are reversed. If reversed, then not a coin at all but an impression made...
Maybe they're colluding with Country Home Antiques:...
If someone had a coin mounted on the handle, it never was a working seal & the photos have not been reversed. Possible that it is a cast of the...
Is this your coin? I'm having trouble comparing with all the going back & forth. http://expositions.bnf.fr/francoisIer/grand/fra_070.htm [ATTACH]
Brass or bronze, the king would have had gold. :happy:
It looks like a brace. The hole suggests something else is lost, probably a peg. You need a luthier.
That was my immediate thought.
Some of the others I found that were similar were inlaid with ebony. Could that be the case here? That someone 'freshened it up' with black...
I'm convinced - Howard it is. https://aarbids.com/servlet/Search.do?auctionId=1730&itemId=14803
When I cross my eyes & look at the signature, it strikes me as being Amanda Smith. It might be something else, this might be the wrong Amanda...
WWI kept everybody busy there for a while. I can imagine Germanic pride swelling in the years before 1914.
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