Please show us the handle. How long is it?
Let me tag someone who is an excellent researcher. @Figtree3 - Can you find anything about the British Fine Art Association?
It may not be something we can sort out here, based on photographs. Finding out what the British Fine Art Association was would probably be very...
Just to muddy the waters a bit - another way you might find an edge like that is if a painting on canvas has been lined by gluing it to a second...
If you google "flint knife" and select "images" you will see many modern creations, as well as instructions on how to make your own.
The jaw bone looks like it came from a pig, with the forward projecting incisors, the large canine. It would not make a suitable handle for a...
If we assume that this is an oleograph copy, it might be possible to locate the original painting, which would settle the issue. I have not found...
Richard Ansdell did win a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition in 1855. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ansdell Perhaps the British Fine Art...
A bit more about oleographs: "Traditionally the term Oleograph referred to lithograph prints over painted in oil paint to recreate the look of...
I have not been able to find much information about the British Fine Art Association, but I did find a page in the 1877 publication of The English...
I am also suspicious about the copyright stamp. Here is a brief discussion of "oleographs": "Occasionally, when we receive a painting into the...
As Taupou said, such dolls reproduce, in miniature, traditional Minganji dancers (Munganji singular) who appear "during initiation rites,...
Looks like ivory to me. The schreger lines are more difficult to see because the carving is oriented along the length of the tusk, and the carved...
Just for clarification, bidri is made from a zinc alloy, as Hollyblue said, with silver inlay. It is treated with a patination process that turns...
Can you feel any incision around the brass colored design? It looks like it might be a selective/resist patination technique rather than inlay....
I will tag @Any Jewelry again. She is very knowledgeable about religious iconography.
Operculum (trap door) of Turbo petholatus, also known as "cat's eye" shells. [IMG] http://www.luckymojo.com/catseye.html
The metal looks more like brass (an alloy of copper and zinc) than bronze (an alloy of copper and tin), but it may be a mixture. Without an...
It is Tara, probably Green Tara, often represented with her right leg somewhat extended in preparation for action, and her left leg tucked up in...
Based on the scarification pattern, I would look at Yoruba masks. The Yoruba orisha Esu/Eshu is often represented with a beard, but usually...
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