I've had a great time watching YouTube videos by Baumgartner Restoration, a professional restorer (and I suspect extremely high-priced). His...
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I wonder if they might be tagua nut? The shape of the larger beads is very suggestive of tagua; and it can be hard to identify, and easily...
That would be a terrible mistake, and though people sometimes try it with classical guitars, those guitars are not built to take the tension of...
I'd call it just a classical guitar, not the same as the luthier Alejandro Cervantes; pretty much just a standard mass-produced Mexican-made...
Not all masks have eye-holes; some cultures have dances where the masks are worn "blind." But I'm not very familiar with African masks and dances,...
Welcome! You might try posting some photos of the title pages, and I'm sure someone could translate or provide advice on posting photos if you...
Speaking of restoration, and somewhat OT; but there are some rather enjoyable youtube videos from Baumgartner Restoration, illustrating the...
Likely Chinese, fairly new, in my opinion. Wants to be jade, but hard to tell what the stone is.
I had a treasured gold ring once, which I took to a jeweler twice....once to be cut, and a small piece removed, and rejoined, to make it smaller;...
I believe Muslim prayer beads usually have either 33 or 99 beads, and do have a marker bead.
I can't make it out either; it does definitely look like soapstone, but stylistically does not look like any kind of native work that I am...
Just a few comments about décor or giftware items: I sometimes hear about items that are thought to be rare or antique because the owner hasn't...
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