You nailed it Azna ! Third Pic down is the Seal-'GMP'. Thanks very much for Your welcome feedback and for the gratefully accepted 'likes'.
Marko- You live in Italiano Pickin' Heaven,a forest of consignment stores ! My Fam's Italian,Yugoslavian w/ a pinch of Irish.I asked My Grandma...
Hello All-I've been reading the Jewelry Forum for a few months and the level of expertise here is mind-blowing,had to jump in ! Here's a few...
At those prices it's a 'slam dunk'.It says you're in S. Jersey-My buddy grew up in the area where they shot the Sopranos.We'd watch and he'd say...
a few results-Japanese bronze bhudist altarpiece/incense burner,turn of century.another-antique Chinese Qing/Ming-echoes earlier neolithic...
I looked up a sculptors name yesterday- 'A. Soffa',and got to see lots of beautiful couches (Sofas).Couple other people ran into this problem also.
marko-At those prices even a jewelry rube like me could afford to gamble on some jewelry.For the stuff that turns out to be worth $10 or less-do...
verybrad- Any opinion on age ?
Good for You Whit-You most definitely outlived the Marlboro Man by 40-50 years.
Even cooler-wonder what they might be worth ?
Is the greyish metal hard like steel/iron,or does it give a tad like pewter/spelter ?
Do you think the metals spelter (pot metal),bronze,copper ? If you scrape a tiny hidden part of the finish is the fresh exposed metal brass,steely...
A bowl,or a hollow tube and bowl (to place the smoking ingredients in) are inserted in the upright portion of the vessel.The bottom lateral tube...
Agree w/ Laura-Hookah.
Also looks like the Lloyd's did a fair amount of jewelry. It looks to me,that as with Coins (the same coin can be worth 1.00 up to 5 or 10 K...
#1 beauty,too bad there's so much varnish on # 2 .
Lots of Wadhams carvings-Will and Ray.You sleuthed Your own piece.Will was born in Alert Bay,BC,maybe Ray too.
Maybe it represents 2 elder gents in a pool contemplating each other's hair blow ? Mythos,friendship,who knows-Mr or Mrs Soffa had some...
RobS- I'm an Oregon person too ! Bless all those 'old timers' who built Timberline Lodge,Multnomah Falls Lodge and Columbia River...
Much thanks to both for your research and intelligent opinions.The piece seems to have some age.How something like this seems to be African...
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