The melt value is about that $44, indeed, but I don't think the amber adds as much as one might think, and nor, here, would the USSR mark. I could...
Ta. It was sold with a cake of soap in it: that's a bath bar size. I'd think 1960s ish.
How big is that, Don?
Husband, who learned it, says Greek.
Those shaped bottles - the Etrusca ones - are basically Empoli made. Town that's home to masses of glass factories, producing both industrial and...
There's some very nice repro stuff coming from China. I've a fabulous pottery duck who is incredibly well modelled and glazed - heck, even the mud...
They were sold as cache pots for plants. I agree on 1960s or later: the clue is the crisp edge on the lettering on the transfer and the colour...
They were almost certainly new when your grandmother bought them. That glaze is far too shiny and the decoration has that airbrushed look - having...
I've had several paperweights made by this lot. They're good quality glass, nice designs and well made. Here's one: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Your fishie ha booze in it, but I can't recall what.
If there's four, and they're different, it's the four winds, agreed. There was a bit of a thing for that in the late 19th. I rather wonder if this...
Yes, and that makes it more interesting. Can you show the underside please?
Great minds. ;) I think this one is nicer than most. Dawn, I'd see it as about the £30 mark here, which fits with your sale price.
Does that top come off? Useful little late 19th/early 20th oak ocasional table, which you can pop back against the wall.
They're modern Chinese repros of old Tang style horses. I quite like them.
North African.
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Hm. Any specifics you're after from this side of the pond? I'm quite good at sourcing. ;)
I think there's a base and pediment missing. Does it all come apart in separate sections?
My thought was French too.
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