For additional context, the auction listing for the same little pot - "Item Details Description Albert Hastings Pitkin (1852-1917) was an early...
[ATTACH] Dante Alighieri - a frequently reproduced image, based on a 16th century Florentine painted portrait. [ATTACH]
I wouldn't get into an argument with @Any Jewelry about religion.........
Perhaps our moderator has combined/removed the duplicate thread.
Here is a miniature portrait in similar technique, referred to as "verre-eglomise", with a good description of the process, and attributed to the...
@SmileyNC included more information in duplicate post - https://www.antiquers.com/threads/gold-leaf-art-thomas-jefferson.82807/ Can you tell us...
Have you identified the portraits around the mid part? That might provide a clue as to date - whenever they were all worth commemorating.
I am not quite sure what kind of information you are looking for, but Hutt seems to have done a number of book illustrations. I did a search on...
Based on other examples, it looks like a text panel may have been trimmed or folded at the top - [ATTACH] But it may not make enough difference...
Cigarette dispenser. ;)
https://www.haggardhawks.com/post/sparrowfarts
For those of us less in the know - "Neiger Brothers jewellery is characterized by beautiful Czech glass beads, and detailed metal bead caps &...
Japanese sumitsubo seem to have larger ink pots and larger wheels....
Good information. Thank you.
:hilarious: when the shoe fits........
I do often sell the "lesser" items in a lot at our mall booth - usually is enough to pay for my investment.
Can you show us the frame? And are there any markings on the back of the photographic paper (like the name of the type of paper)? They might...
I do the same. I have found a nice old Navajo/Paiute wedding basket at the Goodwill once, just sitting in the pile on the shelf. Some little...
[ATTACH] This was the auction lot, as posted. All but one are unremarkable imports. This is the one that caught my eye - a Choctaw basket made...
Similar items are identified as perfume or snuff bottles, made of malachite glass, from central Europe (Bohemia/Czechoslovakia)....
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