Portal Publications was founded in '54, so this is a decorator item long after the fact.
35 amp Switch c1920s: [ATTACH]
Chromolithograph on linen c1910. [ATTACH]
Here's the Black Americana you can't sell on eBay anymore: [ATTACH]
I believe the mark is German, Goebel.
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On the Roma: the treatment of the shield is so rudimentary, you have to wonder if there was more than one hand involved.
Find a glass dome to put over it? I think trying to keep temperature fluctuations to a minimum is your best bet. Keep it in a place out of...
I heard that Henry Fonda liked absinthe, until his doctor's warned him there could be cardiac consequences. They told him "Absinthe makes the...
Could have been just someone named Albert, but might have been Albert I of Belgium.
Elegant pieces. Closeup of the handles? I would think bone or ivory would be more likely than celluloid.
It resembles some early TV remote controls, but I would guess a switch of some sort would be required.
Magnificently over the top. Kitsch with a capitol "K".
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Maybe for squeezing water or oil out of something?
Idle guess would be for smoothing a surface, like in a lamination process?
I think that's a maker's mark. Illegible to me, but a good, clear close-up might reveal something. [ATTACH]
It has been argued that this piece is not by Duchamp. The alternative story is that he was given it to display in an exhibition and that's how...
Nita Cunningham is the name to look up.
It's certainly true that I, at least, pay more attention to the pictures than the text.
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