Beautiful glaze.
Lean it against a window and take a picture with sky as the background and it will appear much more clearly.
I once went for a job interview at a place that made stamped metal garden sheds. A hundred yards away from the building, I was bouncing along the...
I don't want to be around the presses that made those.
Is the Gutekunst mark upside down in the frame? That might indicate that the frame was reused. It's even conceivable that there's another...
I'm finding references to a steel plate engraving by Johnson, Wilson & Co., New York, 1873 ('74?). It appears to be the same pose. Do you think...
I didn't realize you were looking at that print. It's one of the ones I looked at online, but didn't see a plate mark. Their copy might be fully...
I'm guessing it's a reproduction, but that's a guess. It doesn't look 200 years old. You might see a plate mark if it is original (1812), though...
1900s, or 1800s?
If the wiring is an indicator, I'd guess mid-'60s. I don't know if that type of shade would have been accepted in the '50s. Wiring later-on...
Is that a red velvet lining? Can't say I've seen that before. The lining is what makes me think some neo-classic revival.
Mid-'30s, I'd guess. Somewhere there are high school group pictures from my father's time. Very similar fashions and hair.
Beautiful box. [ATTACH]
There's a lot of these online. It's not "omage to omar", it's "Homage a Homere", a suite of prints. You can compare size and whatnot to this...
Someone can jump all over me for this, but I don't think it's pre industrial revolution because the veneers are too thin. Assuming that I'm...
I'm guessing you already know, but Wade on the leprechaun. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/144343031405?hash=item219b83de6d:g:xSoAAOSwKPxhxTCu
There's a Nettie Noyes Conroy in a 1952 obit, but I'm not going to sign up to see what it says:...
I bought this interesting brass box thinking it was no more than that: [ATTACH] But when I opened it, it was a traveler's reliquary: [ATTACH]...
Good story, but the link requires me to sign up for Yahoo. Different link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/galileos-middle-finger
The second shows up as a Swedish postcard: https://www.ebay.com/itm/363773157017 The title, "Ett svårt val", translates as "A difficult choice."...
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