These also often come from Belgium, as well as France. I'd think 60s, too.
Yours is earlier, Barn Owl. Early 20th.
Too delicate for Aynsley. The shallower cups tend to be Continental, from what I've seen.
I've seen chicken wire used many a time.
I have parakeets in my garden.
Fid, I thought that - it's like a wooden version of those slightly naff 1960s ones. Much better made though.
The best bead I ever saw had a finger print in it. A four thousand year old one. It's a bit like seeing paw prints in the baked clay bricks at...
It's German: handgemalt. Means hand painted.
I'd say English - and I've seen faded looking transferware. Mid 19th ish and it's had a hard life, poor little pot!
Olive wood rosaries are usually from Jerusalem, Pat. The whole conflation of olive trees and Gethsemane, and buying what might be seen as a more...
More likely 50s, here. Would have been black, to emulate wrought iron.
Yup, or a wee box with a glass lid. I'm thinking sit them in it, rather than wall hang.
London import mark, not Irish.
Do you ship to the UK? ;)
Shadow box them?
I get that, it's why I bought that Roman glass.
Old - as in, 4000 year old - Egyptian faience or coloured clay ones aren't that sophisticated. Or at least, the mass market ones aren't. I've got...
I suspect more probably Egyptian for some of them. The coloured clay ones look to be faience - that blue one. The two stone ones on the same...
If you can't find one, let me know. I did have a couple of odd ones lying around somewhere. Like you do.
Ten is fine. So, in summary, you have an olive stone/pit rosary missing its carved olive wood crucifix, almost certainly from Jerusalem and some...
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