Going by the specialised nature of the items you are selling I would either try and find an auction where textiles in that field are being sold or...
My 2 penneth, I'm a buyer who searches 1000's of lots each week and I've found during Covid the market has been dry of any really good antiques. I...
Yes the modern stuff is cut very thin by machine rather than by hand and also the materials are copper rather than gold and plastic rather than...
It's not everyone's cup of tea but I also like them. It's the largest fall front I've found so far, it measures 50x44x30 cm HWD
Thank you,the dishes are trays, they are 11 inches wide, I suspect they might have been attached to a life sized figure or figures? They do have...
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Sorry Bonhams link is a bad example lol
I am still amazed to find these works of art relatively inexpensive in some well known online auctions, especially given their eye watering hammer...
Old brain here as well lol
I'm sorry but we will have to agree to disagree, I have looked on many of my ivory pieces and shown close ups as proof, at some level (maybe using...
I do as well, they don't really have any aesthetic value but they are a real glimpse into the past social history.
I have given it some wax but I could refinish it with shellac. The panel slides off to the side (visible in photos)
I could make it look a lot better but I'm in two minds to leave it original
This cabinet was chosen as the front cover illustration on Anne Young’s definitive book “Antique Medicine Chests” and although not exactly the...
Ok I've just studied my 200 year old Canton puzzles, I don't have a close up photo but there are no Schreger lines, and if what you say is correct...
BTW it seems as though all the pieces of ivory you posted are new and African not antique and Indian
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These are just a few examples of antique ivory I own that have no schreger lines at all. The theory must be incorrect or they are only visible on...
I have lots of ivory from India and none has "schreger lines"
Apparently there is more genetic diversity in a single group of chimps than the whole of humanity, we are all brothers and sisters.
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