According to the website of Art Vintage Ltd, the image is a print by the artist William Thompson, titled "The Grandma's Cottage", and dated circa...
As noted in the invaluable link you found, this is a resin imitation of scrimshaw created by the Juratone company in England. It is a replica of...
Item description: "A. St L. Eberle along the base. Gorham Co. Founders Q56 also marked near the base."
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Seems if they were life masks, there would be holes in the nostrils left by straws. They have to breath somehow until the plaster sets.
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Your figures are not African, but more likely from Indonesia. There are similarities with ancestor figures (more commonly wood carvings) made by...
The stone looks similar to that used by Shona carvers in Zimbabwe. Chess sets have been a popular tourist/export product from east African...
Those look like they are a retrofit security measure. They look like metal plates, with leather tabs. The extra holes and different lengths may...
Ballot box?
Perhaps a railroad car coupling pin - [ATTACH] https://www.okthepk.ca/wtf.htm [ATTACH]...
Very elegant.
I have now been able to do a bit more research. Other references seem to indicate that "butter oil" may be the clarified butter called "ghee" in...
Wonderful! I certainly couldn't find that with an image search. Thank you!
Hello all. I am stumped by this thing. My feeling is that the origin is somewhere between Morocco and India (I know, rather broad), but I am...
The textures on the bottom of each vessel look a bit odd. But without provenience or a thermoluminescence test it can be difficult to be certain....
I think @i need help and @Roaring20s have pegged it. The cylindrical bit on the bottom of yours would have fit into the jar (now missing).
I also tried reloading his photos here so we could see them without clicking, but they wouldn't cooperate.
If the mop is cracked, I would expect to see evidence of that on the back side, not just the front. If you are going to try to take it apart it...
If it is strong but light weight, I would lean toward some type of paper mache, known as huzhi in Chinese....
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