From @Roaring20s link: [ATTACH] And the caption that says there are no known examples extant. [ATTACH] I wonder if period mail order catalogs...
People had a very pragmatic approach to death in earlier times.
Best way to show it. You really get a sense of the height.
A final handful of engravings before I stopped buying altogether Jupiter (in the form of Diana) and Callisto: Gerard de Lairesse c1670 [ATTACH]...
There's not much doubt about this: [ATTACH]
This one looks that way to me.
I think rococo revival is what they were aiming at.
Could be a cairngorm, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/hill-shepherd-scotlands-gem-cairngorm--581808845591050400/
How much of it is still there? Wherever you're living now, take pictures of it. If you have favorite places take pictures of them. It all...
I remember when I was a tyke in elementary school. a classroom had a little wooden totem pole sitting in a window, but if you looked in at it from...
https://www.alamy.com/ettore-forti-chariots-racing-in-the-circus-maximus-image328898303.html
Sweet photo.
Could tthat K25 be 925? (Guess not. Not seeing a 9 there.)
Looks pretty convincingly like wood to me.
Aren't Hoffman pieces marked with a tiny impressed butterfly? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
There's always the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, who was grilled: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] But I guess it's too small for that.
Or summon a demon.
If you can find others of these online, check and compare details: face, hands, ect.
That ad from @Ex Libris says "proof plates", which I take to mean the engraved plates were done specifically for this book. So a date on those...
Signed the way it is, I suspect this is a china painter (3rd party) decorating a Royal Winton blank.
Separate names with a comma.
