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Re 2many,could be an old 'Fid' for untangling big maritime rope on a ship.
All respect Cookie,but nobody puts their location in their profile-sometimes it helps w/ provenance.
Great quip-can't remember where it came from either.I think a lot of the perfectly preserved bodies of saints were generously dunked in wax-given...
Great newer piece.
Lists are magic for me.I wake up,do the essentials,then look at the list & make a deal w/ myself-'Get thru half of Chore 1,then check the forum...
I like the Xmas book idea.One thing about growing older & getting rid of stuff is the price of two-thousand square foot coffins these days-it's...
I'm not really sure what it is either,but I'm betting those Etsy pieces aren't true Chinese Hongshan Neolithic meteorite sculptures from about...
We do have a mountain of stuff,some we still like,but lots we over or bought for resale.Plus as we've aged we've gone a bit more 'minimalist'....
Give this Listing a peek.No exact matches,but reminiscent-...
A fair amount of Ebay 'Sold' prices make me want to dump the Thrift,Flea & Estate Sale route & just hunt for the rock bottom BIN prices.I saw a...
Either 'Daft' or 'Drafty' because of the hole in the belly ?
I can't say if it's old/new,but I see influences of Pre-Columbian,Taino,Hongshan Chinese.Could be old,new or fantasy piece-very cool though.
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Lovely piece MOS.When we were in Bruges i think they had a crystal vial of Christ's blood in one of the churches.We passed on it and went to see...
Here's a piece I picked up.The portrait's not bad,but I really like the reverse-studies of plaster casts (nose & mouths). Color is truer on the...
They're quite lovely small hand done works of art-who knows ?
The Atlas is a good wake-up.The NYT Crossword just pis*#* me off-jigsaw puzzles though are a good AM brain tonic,hand,eye,etc. Religious relics...
Ditto 2many-Clothing more 1860's to me too.
From the always fascinating Atlas Obscura- PS-I have a tiny cased Saint's Relic somewhere round here,will post when found.It's from St. John Bosco...
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