Wishing you luck, James!!
Yeah, I've had evenings like that..............didn't make much difference...............
Looks like painted gesso on wood to my untrained eye.
By the way, contrary to pop-culture's insistence that all ancient Celtic jewelry featured weird and scary animal heads, the roundels such as on...
Neither Monarchist nor Republican here, though raised as both, depending on which side of the family you were with at the moment. We can even lay...
Though denied by the English ancestors for generations, yeah, we have now owned up to the Irish blood. Or as Gram was wont to say "The Bloody...
Thank you! Oh, I am so glad that you have continued to post these links...................and I now have a new excuse to not do anything...
I was just going ask about the handles.
DOH! You see a logo there? Geeze, mine eyes is worser than I thinked...............Sorry to confused things............I jes went by da...
It does look like a buckle/fastening of some sort, though not from an obi. A traditional obi has no buckle, it is basically just an oblong piece...
Gave FID's comment a like, but that is not strong enough.................so I give it a "Oh Mien Gott, my sides hurt from rolling around on the...
And I am a TERRIBLE typist! Thank you for pointing out my error so it does not lead anyone else astray!
He reminds me of a statue of a Praetorian Guard I have seen in the past, but I am fuzzy on WHERE and/or WHEN, and of course Goggle has let me down...
May not be helpful but the form is called a "torc", sometimes "torq". I would not be surprised if one of the marks wasn't 14k or 18k, and maybe an...
Kardinalisimo - Thanks for the update! And allow me to say, with humble modesty, to all and sundry Haha I was right! I was right and you weren't....
Please be certain to start a new thread in the appropriate category within the forum and be sure to include any pertinent data in the title to...
Many people here just used their eBay user ID when they migrated from eBay to this sanctuary of sense and sanity. It was how most of use knew each...
And it makes us famous throughout the land! We interrupt this discussion to bring you this Important Notice: Just so's you knows, everything on...
Looks like if may have been a school project or otherwise "hand-crafted"..........so many compound angles, edge treatments and carving................
The set holds its own, you don't need a maker's name. The fabric is perfectly period, though I never would have thought to use it on seats. Very nice!
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