Are you sure it is not actually cowhide? Here's a "Spanish bull in miniature, handmade of cowhide," claiming to be made in Spain....
I'm going to assume for my own peace of mind that they were humorous items, not representing any actual cruelty to real animals. I wonder what...
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If it did belong to the owner of the lap steel, it tells us that he or she used the "A low bass" tuning, an open A chord with E in the bass. That...
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Just suggesting some possibilities; and some jeweler's and clockmaker's tools are very small; but what I mean is that the inner tray, and the...
Another thought is that the coffin shape works very well as a container for things that happen to fit it; there are coffin-shaped violin and...
No argument with baseball. It can be hard sorting the baby from the bathwater though. I've got a ton of old sheet music, 1920 and on, inherited...
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And here's a listing for a 1937 Stella, looks very similar, so maybe 1937-1938 is about right. That date is quite early for any kind of electric...
I don't have a Stella serial number list; but I've seen quite a similar Stella lap steel listed as being from 1938, and that seems about right,...
I'd think most of these would be found in US antique shops from $.25 to $2.00
If I understand correctly, the balopticon was not strictly speaking a slide projector, or magic lantern as they used to be called, but was a type...
That would be my thought also, patterns for molds, but not sure what the product would be.
I'm thinking it is from Alaska, most likely, not a traditional Inuit mask, but intended to represent an Eskimo, for tourist sale. Similar to the...
I'm getting a faux Mayan vibe, with jaguars. Might have been kept outdoors, as a garden ornament, maybe.
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