In the 1970's and 80's in BC, sign writers made loads of wooden sandblasted signs, e.g."Welcome to Blah-Blah-Blah Estates, your gated golf...
While it is possible the thing could have been cut with a CNC, I doubt whether the average artist would have access to one - however, a compressor...
@anundverkaufen Hey, well done there mate! - Never would have guessed!
Is it Santa Claus in the off-season perhaps?
It's pretty obvious these two pieces have been made separately so (this is just a suggestion!) is it possible that this is a marriage between a...
Clematis?
Grave headstones are done with the same technique ..:arghh:.:bag::facepalm:
Looks like it is her, NW coast + islands subject matter, this looks like my part of the world in the San Juans so pretty sure it's an earlier work...
Caroline Buchanan
A lot of these came out of Singapore.
This is probably the last word on Watcombe and Dresser, much else is just marketing. http://www.torquaypottery.com/artisansofpotteries.htm
I'll stick with my original call, Watcombe Torquay ...The design is attr to Dr. Dresser here and there, but a lot of aesthetic stuff is, so why...
Very cool story, and an even cooler relative :jimlad: thanks for showing us!
I bought some tusk recently (locally, from another restorer) to carve some missing tusks(!) on a few old Inuit pieces I had around.
The mount looks more 20's-30's to me but that's just a guess ...
Have a read of this, talks about folk industry in the Cameroons...
Watcombe Torquay
They may be Webb, check that out maybe?
Looks to be somewhere in Holland
Back in the 80's, F&W officers showed up at Californian Antique shows and confiscated anything made of tortoiseshell, took the stuff right out of...
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