If I had a villa in Istria, I'd give it a place there if the price was right.
The condition seems remarkable for something long buried, even a bronze item.
The tree question is really, is it feasible that around 1940 someone buried some Jewish stuff and planted a tree on the spot, it grew and was...
Lower grade siver is common with these knives. They may be found wherever the Beduin roam. I have sold quite a few, the ones with the rhino horn...
Plate 2, Moses telling Pharoh about the famine to come. Or something Mosaic.
THey appear to be scenes from the life of Moses. Where is the tree? How were they buried, how deep, any other clues.
Chinese , I think.
Yes, silver chloride. Exactly the process to re-silver old grandfather clock dials. Those brass dials started out silver and were much easier to...
Bracket fungus. No Scot is going to be leaving coins in a tree in the middle of nowhere. Bracket fungus is one of many found on decaying wood. In...
What you have there is the same material sold by clock shops to restore the silvering on clock dials. It does a good job there because there is no...
Any where that calls themselves a shoppe deserves what they get, and it won't be that silly price.
Aspic mould if anything, usually solid copper, not plated although they were tinned inside. Modest value, depends where you are and how...
To me that does not look remotely like anything Picasso would be doing in 1968
however they do it I do it by being 3000-5000 miles east.
"Even the loftiest tree has low hanging branches"
Looks like a dip-stick for a barrel. If the marks are not an inch apart it possibly measures gallons.
That one looks like a J class but it is missing the racing number on the sail. Generic America's Cup class yacht of the 1930s.
I think my family stopped keeping varlets in the 15th C.
Sorry, no idea.
It appears to be a reasonably competent picture of a mid 19th C clippper (not a schooner) on a broad reach under main courses and topsails only....
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