Strong vision,execution seems a tad shaky. It looks like the artist painted the signature twice -in charcoal and then maybe paint (acrylic ?).
Mine too-certain of his passages are sublime,knock me sideways-close to or equaling the punch of a Shakespeare (sorry for the heresy !).
@wlwhittier it's solid as a rock & fits in my right hand perfectly (single handed scraper). @2manybooks the Lunellum/hide scraper theory makes...
Tis is a priceless thing having a Bibliophile here ! I've got a copy too (3rd Ed). If our copies had a DJ like the one below, it'd be a very good...
Great piece Chas-very,very sweep piece of eye candy.I can see Jonothan Harker hoisting one of these at Dracul's table ! Really unique foot.
Def a possibility Whit. Wonder if it was a primitive home-made 'one off' ?
Think it might be a scraper,African,SE Asian ? Maybe it's not a tool (as we usually define it) at all ?
Puzzler to me too-still looking.No ulus w/ a 90 degree blade mount that i've seen yet.
I'd love some help solving the provenance of this Ulu-'style' (Eskimo/Inuit multi-purpose knife) cutting/chopping tool. Piece is 6 1/4" long by 4...
A thousand Dittos on this one Debora. When the huge deluge of 'shares' begin on Recent Topics our brains & eyeballs can quickly become...
A Renaissance school bus driver. Interesting making snap judgements-it's like that wizened old geezer slouched on the bus stop bench, who also...
Gee-I hope some of the good citizens back in Cedar rapids appreciated his work. Do you think his younger siblings sold or donated them to a thrift...
Welcome Ananth ! Very lovely painting.
Awesome-My Uncle the dentist had one.
Nice piece-quick sure hand.
I'm thinking she's from Dr. Who mate-Catherine Tate as Donna Noble
Nice and unique to find these days. Would un-treated cedar have naturally darkened more over the years with age ?
Ditto House,the form and finish is superb. With my jaded eyes I might just have passed it by as just another one of the mold-made cast pieces one...
Almost 100 years after the above pic (in the RR book) was taken the lanterns remain at Kasuga Shrine. [ATTACH]
She does lovely work-beaut Chas ! Seems to be near Lastingham,North York Moors National Park. 'Tarka the Otter'-this is the trailer, you mean this...
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