Billy, here's how the ones Bakers mentioned would look when hooked together: [ATTACH] You might find them described as "graduated" brass bells...
$50 sounds like a good deal, Chris.
Lucy, think back to chemistry class and the periodic table. Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from the Latin: aurum).
Chris, most of these that I've seen have been Italian. I don't know how old yours is, but I do know that they're still making ones similar....
Vitry, there very well MAY be marks somewhere on that delightful item. I had a wall mirror from Brazil with a very similar, all-over pattern and...
Kyra, what a lovely little find, and what GORGEOUS repair work you've done! Such talent! I am beyond impressed.
I don't think it's an amateur's work, but rather studio pottery of some sort. This one (sadly, it's also unidentified) seems to have some...
My daughter made one quite similar in shop class in high school!
Same shape & mark, different paint job: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] from:...
Same or similar pattern? [ATTACH] from:...
Perhaps Slovakian/Hungarian?
TieDye, you have your own little time capsule! I recognize so many of those products!
AJ, do you think I'm doing something wrong, in how I'm displaying/storing them? Until recently, they've seemingly been just fine... for YEARS!
Geez, AJ... If I wanted to store them in a "cotton lined box", I wouldn't bother having them! I do have some of the high-end boxes, and they're...
Oh, heavens! That little guy is SO NOT CUTE! (Not in my world, anyway...)
Greg, welcome... and I SO can relate! After a couple of moves, I actually relinquished similarly marked boxes to the "moving guys" - as in, "Take...
Oh, Aqui, so THAT is the animal to which you referred... Yeah, not so cute, is it???
Would these be more specific as artwork or tourist items Chris, I think the best answer to that is BOTH, but most of those available at...
Billy, that's a nice looking kitchen (or, heck, even bathroom) canister. I keep just about every kind of dry food - from pasta to rice to baking...
I have a feeling that the "transfer" of V&A may have been made available to more than one company to use for souvenir plates and the like. Here...
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