Before you get it repaired,stabilize it before the next big California Quake.I lived near the San Andreas Fault for decades-no joke.
This commentary sure helps when it comes to differentiating modern tourist kachina and older trad ones.
A highlight of our recent furniture postings-thanks !
Gilbert Rhode did design work for them....
So I guess the tell that let's us know Kach4 is later w/ separately carved pinioned arms.Earlier ones seem to be a simple single-block un-pierced...
I'd guess what Taupou's talking about re authentic 19th century Hopi teaching Kachinas,would be figures 1,4&5 in the above photo.I'm no...
The Clown Motel,Tonopah Nevada-It fronts on the town's old pioneer graveyard.The historic cemetery is filled with the sad remains of mine cave-in...
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Guilloché-decorative technique where a very precise, intricate & repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via...
The really strange new breed of large animated (animatronic) clown dolls/mannequins are extremely weird.I guess some folks think they're...
Thanks Satin-I think this is the special AM 370-666 Model !
Close to pristine,if early 19th-it's a beauty.I'd drink a good micro-brew out of that proudly !
Couldn't agree more OB-Just waiting for documentable paranormal evidence so i can list her for several million on Ebay.Her cage's surrounded by a...
St. James (Santiago de Compostela) is usually associated w/ a scallop shell.Supposedly when his remains were discovered they were covered in...
Old/New ? It's in really good shape.Wiser eyes will soon be here.
600% works for me all week long !
She does keep looking at me.I'm putting her very gingerly,very carefully back in her gilded cage. 'Ouch !'...there seems to be a tiny bite mark on...
Me too.
By gosh-Oshkosh ! Looks like that 1% of 1%-congrats,think you might've won this weeks Trunk Lottery...and I'll tell you-we Ebayers are universally...
Also think looks Japanese.I think Anti's referring to the top end of the cane-could be the end of a tree trunk,magic mushroom,or indeed a piece of...
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