[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] So my box has a painted scene around the outside of the box that...
Almost identical https://www.trocadero.com/stores/galeriehafner/items/1387380/Hexagonal-Persian-Qajar-Papier-Mache-Lacquer-Box-1900
I'm not entirely sure but I may have made a mistake saying these were 1960's tourist pieces, sorry. I have been doing far more research on Iranian...
It's a fair comment being lucky and having a good eye but also putting in the legwork. I must have looked at 20,000 lots, admittedly it only takes...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I'm a cheapskate, I try and find places where sellers don't know what they are selling. I found 2 boxes in the last month both...
I'm always a little cautious when it comes to valuations, I try and buy at half the price (or less) that I can find it anywhere on the internet. I...
A lot of my day is devoted to researching and finding antiques, I know how you feel, I have found incomplete sets and managed to find missing...
A full set is always what your looking for, even if not original as most don't know what was put in there. £1200 doesn't seem bad for what it is,...
Thank you, do you know where they were copied? My one is made of carved stone, it would seem to be easier to make it from fired clay to copy?
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] My one was dug from a Victorian rubbish dump in undisturbed strata from at least 1890's, how much...
Today these are made with plastic inlays, personally I don't see why they didn't use bone as this would have made them almost impossible to tell...
[ATTACH] If you just take this small 8" x 5" x 2.5" Hoshiarpur box it has 650 shaped ivory inlayed pieces and that's not including any of the...
The truth is I don't know how long these works took but I suspect the sewing basket was one of the quickest boxes I have to make. I not saying the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Yes each panel is hand carved Sandalwood with Sadeli, ivory and ebony stringing made in around 1860-1880. All the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Are sewing related antiques your thing? I have a sewing box, of course I don't using it for my sewing...
I used to go digging in old Victorian rubbish dumps and I found one of these, does anyone know when they started to be faked?
As soon as they come I'll post them up in the Jewellery Forum so members (who know better) can have a chuckle :) Thanks again.
Is it just costume jewellery? Lol and that's why my wife said "what are you doing?" First and last time I buy something based on the seller not...
I don't ever buy jewellery let alone ethnic jewellery but the other day I took a punt on some very cheap jewellery, only because the seller had...
Sorry don't know what happened there. Wow Any, what an answer.
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