I don't think this is Wallace Nutting. This is very art deco. Nutting pieces tend to be "old colonial" in character.
Doesn't look like an etching.
Some judiciously applied stove black might help?
Remember that Meissen is a place. The company that most people think of simply as Meissen is actually something along the lines of The Royal...
Very nice. I don't think it's Medusa. Maybe one of the Furies?
Louis Carrogis Carmontelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Carrogis_Carmontelle
I'd guess there was a document with it originally that named each of the metal bars.
Ruhlmann was tremendously influential. I'd guess this is more in-the-style-of.
Somebody channeling Ruhlmann.
Portuguese maybe?
Korean?
What's the book? If it's something people actually want to read, being unopened isn't going to help. If it's a wildly collectible title, it may...
Your local library may have a large format scanner. Worth checking out.
I don't have a scanner or a printer. I take my stuff to the local library where they have both. How big is this photo? Things of this ilk can...
A textured paper, but not laid paper. I think they are prints and the textured paper is just to make them seem more like originals. I do think...
Royal Saxon Guard Cavalry helmet: [IMG]
That doesn't encourage me to think that it's old.
I think the whole thing is probably recent. I don't see how that verdigris on the base, which looks very controlled, would have naturally developed.
I've read that Chelsea is marked on the bottom, and the larger and more prominent the mark is, the less likely it is to be from that factory.
Camel whip?
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