Undoubtedly the blue paint was applied and antiqued at a later date IMHO. I can see some woman doing this in the 80's when the pink and blue...
I would make a wager that the pendulum is faux mercury. I have seen a number of them where there were just little faded silver paper tubes that...
A bit of poking around shows that only elephant ivory is banned. Mammoth ivory, walrus tusk, and sadly even narwhal ivory and anything else in the...
Yes, that's the one. I was looking at the bowsprit (got to use my new word;)) and it indeed was skewing my perspective.
I thought the ban was just elephant ivory?
Excellent point Aquitaine! I am discussing the picture that the OP, SSlava, posted in the first post on the thread. Another glass of Chardonnay...
BOWSPRIT! That's the word! I have learned a new word tonight, the evening is not a total loss after all! :joyful:
Maybe it is the angle of the piece where a figurehead would be on a more ornate ship playing with my eyes. Maybe I am just nuts. Maybe a glass of...
The masts are tilted to the viewers left as if the ship is rolling on a wave but the ship itself is sitting straight in the water with the prow...
Does anyone else, upon closer inspection, seem to think the masts do not appear to be correctly oriented to the deck of the ship? I think it is...
I claim no professional insight in the art category but I do not believe that is 70's sofa art. I find that to be a compelling picture and it...
"Ring Size Adjuster" seems to pull them up. Here is one made of something besides metal that actually looks like kind of a good idea!...
You can find them on Ebay likely. There used to be a lot of them there.
Well I stand corrected on that point but it seems to me whomever set this one didn't fit it well in the corners or something. Just my late night...
I am not confident that it is the original setting for the cameo. The corners look too squared for the piece. I have never seen a cameo in a white...
Am I seeing correctly that it is a metallic gold color? Maybe some Christmas decorating use? Is it water repelling? Maybe use for wrapping big...
Older stones were cut differently then they are today. Even the old rose and mine cut diamonds were faceted on the top side of the stone like your...
I think that 1880-1910 is a pretty accurate date range. I will put a link to the page that info was on and you can study a bit and see if you feel...
It was made in a "cup bottom" mold. https://sha.org/bottle/cupbase.jpg Quote from aforementioned site: Cup-bottom molds were used to produce...
Up the side of the spout on the first one there is engraving albeit a bit worn but it looks to be polished away on the second one for an example...
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