For risk of sounding trite: Rodney's movie wall scene was so much bigger than mine! It took up most of a whole wall. Mine is only 43" H x 60" W!
I wonder how the very same scene came to be on the background in the movie "Back To School'! I managed a full photo of the tapestry:
I guess I wrote that wrong. I know the origin of the maker, it's Belgium. I bought this tapestry unframed and had it framed. On the back of the...
Thank you, @Debora! I have been unable to locate the same scene, i.e. mine, in Images on the Net, have tried on and off thru the years. The only...
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I have this old tapestry and I think it's after a famous painter but who, Boucher or? Sorry about lousy picture but where it is now is difficult...
A rather typical Sarouk style rug of the 1930s. Compare styling here: Images on G Sarouk was probably the most copied rug in machine-mades.
It is very popular among vintage costume jewelry collectors to want to ascribe every signature to a "designer" and/or manufacturer. In c.j. both...
I have come across a lot of bakelite jewelry in the past, all kinds, vintage and modern. Genuine Bakelite is not formed by moulding, it's...
Sorry, but your unusual English eludes me: "..trying to look carey." I knew a man named Carey once, he was Irish. Any connection? What's meant by...
Great, you checked it. The other portrait does not seem to be identified as her anywhere. I took a quick look thru Images on French google. Had it...
Ivory and ebony?
@Debora: I think the inscription was/is on the other older miniature of the lady in the blue dress, given the life time of Mlle Arnould as...
That makes sense. It's likely a Woolworth Special then. Like the ubiquotous TIMEX used to be in the U.S.
Script inscription: Mlle Sophie Arnauld or Arnould? Possibly her portrait.
I think it's Russian. May have come in from the East Bloc with a refugee following WW II. I can't translate the stamp but it looks Cyrillic to me....
Good easy test for bakelite without investing in anything outside yourself: Rub material with fingers until fingers are warm. Sniff fingers (not...
@komokwa Do you know if there are elks in the Philippines? These teeth are too small to come from an elk. Perhaps a small deer, even a goat?
And while we're in the creepy body parts dept., here's another necklace with a potentially mysterious history: Genuine Teeth Necklace, Not Human...
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