From the hair and clothes maybe later? '20s, '30s? Copy of a photo, or an advert?
Is there anything on the back?
Why wouldn't someone want to sign that? Shows a Rackham influence to my eye.
I don't remember. I doubt I ever noticed. Buzza is probably the best know motto print company, but they weren't the only one. For me, this goes...
I believe that Dore did his designs in ink washes, but they were engraved by others and, as I recall, principally the Dalziel Brothers. Printing...
I think they are reminiscent of the Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna, and could be a souvenir from there.
I would have passed them by with not a second glance.
The Cuixart look like take on Leroy Neiman's Playboy Femlin. [ATTACH] Nothing even vaguely Chagall about it.
Designs and illustrations by McCann. This is like a genre of books. Frank Lebby Stanton was another apparently contemporary with McCann and, in...
This suggests some cigar connection as well: https://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/cigar_label_whitecat.htm
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/155684316023 https://www.ebay.com/itm/403072653686 https://www.biddr.com/auctions/fsrcoin/browse?a=3815&l=4428450...
New word to me.
The fact that a carving isn't old doesn't necessarily mean it isn't good. There are excellent craftsmen producing beautiful works in traditional...
I can't speak to materials, but these are not old netsuke. The holes are the same size. On a functional netsuke one would be larger than the...
Given the detailed, printed description, it probably is a press release photo, and from a negative. Velox paper was invented by Leo Baekeland,...
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Chalet Glass did similar, but so did lots of others.
https://waterbridge.net/products/swiss-hazelnut-truffles-150g
It looks like the decorative bits are stamped metal. If so, they were probably available for any application.
With the broad expanses of metal, I'd suggest that, if it's not just surface enamel, "champ levee" is a more likely term.
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