Everybody goes hoping to find the treasure hidden in the junk. Good way to buy kid stuff, especially if you are on a budget. So many sales are...
Isn't it remarkable the way that occasionally happens.
I'm a total sucker for gold boxes... at least for the catalogs, which are as close as I'm ever likely to get.
From the decoration and the shape of the cup, I would guess first decade or two of the 1900s.
1000lb Fruitcake [ATTACH] It's a fruitcake, so it's probably still out there somewhere.
stigma = mark No negative connotation.
Better to say Tsarist silver or silver of the Imperial period rather than Imperial silver. Or have we had this discussion previously?
It was searching that title that took me to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. They have a Washburn print of that name, but it's an entirely...
They look to me to be different states of the same etching. He may have intended two different atmospheric effects, but the position of people...
Excellent find. Here's a Worthpoint listing: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/early-1886-original-etching-1800644977
Just pack it all up and send it along.
Someone named Konstan Proff did a couple of similar patterns very recently, but he was more likely "inspired by" than "source of": [ATTACH] I...
And they don't show the bottoms. Is the MIJ mark overglaze? If so, it could easily wear or wash away. So far as European companies are...
I have no problem accepting 1991 as the date... an old-timey drawing is all. I was hoping it might be an intaglio, but no such luck. [ATTACH]
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I hadn't even noticed that.
Got this recently. Really don't know how old it is but, having it in hand, it doesn't seem very old: [ATTACH]
Looks more likely Italian to me.
Leningrad went back to being St Petersburg in 1991, so there's that. And Picasso was born in 1881.
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