They look like their sire was the Michelin Man. [ATTACH]
These occupational photos are stunning! Researchers will be excited to see them. The last image of the shearer looks like a crude version of solar...
The stylized sailing ship motif was extremely popular in the turn-of-the-century arts and crafts movementcarrying on for about 20 years. They turn...
Be careful, you just may summon something...[ATTACH]
Is that it's natural color? It looks sooty, as if it's been through a house fire.
In every museum I have worked in, we use Past Perfect. But it is probably too expensive and cumbersome for private collections. My own collection...
Welcome.. either way, it leads to madness. :bored:
I agree that it looks molded, 'twould be very difficult to carve that diapered/beaded background. Steam, pressure and steel dies are used to press...
Now it makes sense. Thank you!
I smell dead people.
Similar to this Irish bog oak one, especially the back treatment. https://www.antiques-atlas.com/antique/antique_irish_bog_oak_brooch/as633a119
Here in the US a garment like this is very rare. You have a treasure. I suggest taking it to a textile historian for appraisal.
It's a Victorian Eastlake dresser, probably quarter-sawn oak under the paint. Lovely original brass hardware! A mirror or backsplash may have...
Tam was a popular theme in decorative arts. Tableware and Toby mugs for example... here is an early Ridgeway pitcher with the witches' chase. They...
THAT is a museum acquisition number on the back! Don't remove it! It was donated in 1974, donation number 99. If you can find out what...
Wooly knicker socks? [ATTACH]
My dear friend Pamela Apkarian-Russell "The Halloween Queen" (trademarked) has an entire building stuffed, and I mean stuffed, with vintage and...
Thank you. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. :rolleyes:
Halloween items just keep going up. Hard-core, life-long collectors! Bertoia Auctions get insane hammer prices. I am so relieved I have quit...
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