That looks Pacific Northwest to me. A claw of some sort.
You'd be surprised, spring. There's lovely relief work that came out of Coalbrookdale meant as both bird baths and fountain bowls.
One's butler would have looked FAR more elegant with a wand.
AHA! Thank you davey. I might have known some genius here would solve it.
OK, two thingies about a foot long, hand turned with some age. Care to speculate on purpose? I've no clue. [ATTACH]
I doubt it's fake, given the origin. There's a lot of jools made in Israel from Old Stuff. I've got Roman glass necklaces.
Agreed, Venetian millefiori. Good ones, too.
It's very common for older Asian items not to be stamped with any kind of silver fineness. I suspect this is low grade silver. This is earlier...
I suspect part of a fountain - wall mounted. There's loads of cast iron birdbaths and fountains here. The rust or patina to be fancy, gives it...
Known as eggshell. Millions of these came to Europe, often as ballast, would you believe.
The number is the clue. ;) Some only have that, not names.
Many thanks khl, much obliged. Not a bad five dollars worth, by the look of it.
Brilliant! Many thanks for the tongue twister. :)
Got these today, suspect pewter or similar - doubt they're silver, the smell is all wrong. ;) There's chop marks inside the lids. Anyone able to...
So did I, Pat, quite irresistible to this magpie. ;) I thought the Monet enamel was really unusual.
Hey, thank you for looking! He was a freebie, pretty well, but I think I'll keep him. He sits nicely with my Bitossi hippo.
Now this is interesting. When you google on blue hippos a whole bunch like him come up. He's definitely a copy of an Egyptian one, even the MMA...
I suspect he's some sort of modern collectible - the bird/lotus thing might well be a copy of an Egyptian hippo. I do hate indecipherable. ;)
A nice little hippo, probably resin, and I bought him because he's very like the Bitossi colours. Dated and signed. Anyone recognise the mark?...
Oh, I forgot these. Pair of 19th C Stourbridge made salts, cranberry glass with rigaree trails. The charity shop knew not what they were. I did....
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