I think this is what they call 'Mid century Modern'.
The Great Mah-Jonng boom was in the 1920s when the US popularity of the game among non Chinese people took off. In general that is when these...
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I know Buren was British owned in the early 20th C, and that this is much later than the clock in question, just wondering in the original reply...
My guess would be patinated spelter. The Airedale is an unhappy breed without binocular vision for much of its field of view because the snout...
The cactus is the clue. It is of the 'prickly pear' type used to cultivate the cochineal beetle, and the woman is saying "See the vampire bite...
Southern Russia would be my guess.
Judging by the costume I'd say they were Street entertainers.
carp, which are regarded in the Orient as sacred on account of their elegant beauty, size, and life-span and taste, which is quite delicate for a...
I'd say the estimate is a bit low. I also suspect it is Buren not Burer. As always the movement tells as much about it as the front does. My...
I have one similar in my knife pile in the garage. My experience is that if it is not an original but a later 'style of' thing, the value is...
I think I've stated at least once in this thread that I did have insurance. However, if the buyer is not compliant and won't discuss the matter...
and how much you can afford to lose if things go wrong in some way. Which is what insurance is for. If you don't play you can't win. Or lose,...
Someone has used that vase as a pellet or BB gun target, notice the round marks in the bottom of each dent. There should be one or two glancing...
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Independent transit insurance (for US based sellers) is cheap and effective. If $1 per $100 cover did not represent a fair assessment of the risk...
This women has a modern face and bust. The signature is also modern. (Modern is anything younger than I am)
Machine cut refers to screws or a screw that I assumed held the back base. If there is no original fastening, why is there a neatly drilled hole?...
Transferred to Chili on 20 March 1947 They made pepper out of it? Even welding together prefabricated pieces, three weeks is pretty fast...
It appears to be rather poorly modelled and cast and finished. If the screw you removed from the base to show the underside was machine cut, that...
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