Very interesting! The little hat...I wonder if the style is alluding to the industry or type of person he is portraying. I would have bought it...
Agreed with Bronwen--this is Incolay which is not made of a stone but a mixture of crushed minerals and resin. I believe they started making these...
Hmm, Charles Burgon was a "cutlery maker" with James Ball. Another Link mentioning Bowie knives. Looks like "Charles Burgon" and then something...
What a monumental undertaking!! I hope you have an amazing sale!
It's common to drymount posters to foamcore for framing, so that probably happened after it was bought.
Is Mercury-gilt not a thing that comes up often on this forum? This is her underside where you can get a good look at the process. The gold is...
Don't they make this thicker type to have relics inside? I do think it is soldered shut, but maybe it has something inside or was made from the...
That....looks like a reverse impression of a BG to me. Especially with the B having the smaller rounded part on the "bottom"... That's usually on...
Yebia Miajik?? Tebia/Jebia? Yebid/Tebid/Jebid? :confused: Miujik, Sliujik....:cyclops:
Yeah they annoy me because it's never the actual studio, or maker, it's always someone that either makes a business off "authentication" or...
:hilarious::hilarious::hilarious: SOME! GA has filmed more movies than LA in certain years. It has more soundstages than NYC. It has tens of...
Gout is a French surname as well, and seems to be held by more people according to surname data sites. I wish I could find more information in...
The auction site is made up of all the locals, and they're responsible for individually listing, customer servicing, and shipping their local...
I find good-for-me stuff there on the regular. The online version for our area is weirdly often filled with plain trash. Meanwhile, I found gold...
Not everything has a COA... That's a secondary market middle-man thing. Studios/productions rarely label things or even track them. Even now, it...
She's not polished...she has had gold applied to the surface using the old mercury-gilt method (before they moved to electroplating because...
Perhaps Mr. Gout would have called it that. You can see the reddish edge color from the process on the bottom of her. It was definitely banned in...
I picked this up months ago at a local auction. She came from an expensive home in our downtown area, and I was surprised when the dealers let me...
The black areas cover deep into the paper texture and seem to have some fairly delineated edges, so I would expect something chunkier with a bit...
I would say any finalized modern drawing like this would probably have fixative as a standard finish, but of course you should be careful anyway....
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