Dang! How'd I get so old an' not ever did see setch a thang?!
What is a trombone (if not the slide musical instrument)?
WOW! What an education...Thank you, LauraG!
Are they perhaps portraits of Noh characters?
Based on other red clay tea pots this size I've seen here an' there, this one might be recent...but a few things are different enough for me to...
No may be about it, Bronwen. Spot on!
I get Rotlams.
Leave it 'zactly as-is, imho. Whatever would remove the verdigris would also alter the surface, degrading the beauty...not to mention value....
Thanks, Debora...obviously a valuable link!
I think I'm in love again! What a beauty! Thanks...
As I am frequently reminded, my abysmal ignorance has been exposed. West Coast city boy, dumb as an oyster. I stand fully corrected in this...
Not the stand, so much, but the hammered bowl is a stunner. From your pics it seems to be quite uniformly shaped. A thing about copper (and...
Au Contraire, Bear! As we don't have a pic that confirms the spout being real/functional, nor any dimensional information or size comparison, I...
Bingo! Thank you sincerely, sis...very well done!
Perhaps then: repairs by the finishing artisan of foundry flaws. At least one was missed, though: [ATTACH]
This was a flea market find ~15 years ago; it got stored away & forgotten until I went lookin' for something else. It's always such a delightful...
All brass, an' it's got a removable bobiche(?). It is nothing special, but I would sure like to describe it accurately when I list it on th' Bay....
A guess would be that the intended use was the harvesting of sugar cane. Heavy enough, when properly sharp.
The blade was made in Birmingham, England by Robert Mole & Sons, but the leather scabbard (sheath?) is almost certainly local to Trinidad, as the...
An' they look good enough to eat! Sweet!
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