Your piece is made of Northern yellow birch, as was all of the Colonial Creations line 1933 through the early 60's. They felt it was superior to...
Looks wonderful, nice work. Have nice memories of working at a shop with a woman who restored and sold these back 30 years ago. They are truly the...
If non-magnetic, it's going to be spelter (a zinc alloy), then electro plated with a copper or bronze finish, common to lamps 1890's onward. There...
Like the octagon top . . .
Hope he finds it, complete lamps are a big plus. It also would likely be marked with Patent date, etc.
A fairly early lamp with a Fresnel lens, designed to refract and amplify light source - first ones began appearing in the early 19th c. I see...
This just seems crude for high style. [ATTACH]
What concerns me as them being 19th c. is the prominent visible seem on both top and bottom castings - we usually see more refinement on formal...
Any further knowledge of these, other then assuming they're a Thanksgiving display items 1890-1930's ? [ATTACH][ATTACH]b [IMG]
Yes. I've bought a few paintings by young artists in Ukraine. Not only very nice work, but support in all forms since 2022 is something important.
It really depends - deep in the psyche of the antiques collector, we like being that person who finds an object 'in the rough' as they say - that...
Same painting - the darker image is from her website listing done years ago of the series before being signed apparently. I took the brighter...
Any other works seen - I was told the artist is a New England painter. 16x20 oil/canvas of the steam engine at the Pratt Institute. Signed 'A....
Agree with those you say proceed with caution . . 'less is more' when addressing wood, it is way to easy to destroy the honest age of a piece....
Yes. He was a major force in the film 'California Typewriter' which is a great movie. [IMG]
Not a restoration, but a cleaning, oiling, and buff the aluminum. Make it able to type.
Always intrigued by Industrial Revolution mechanical objects, I was was familiar with these and was thrilled to find one through a friend. Here's...
A Blickensderfer Featherweight from 1915 ~ a revolutionary and scarce machine. Aluminum body, barrel type shuttle rotates forward to strike paper...
That's a nice totem. The one you referenced from a few years ago is mine - I've attributed it to Leslie John. Similarities in style to his brother...
Many consider the use of a Emmett Kelly mask by Sterling Hayden in Stanley Kubrick's 1956 film 'The Killing' to be the introduction of the 'scary'...
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