Not pate-sur-pate, which is a ceramic process, but an imitation thereof. Enamel painted and fired onto glass. Gets lumped together under the...
It's a bit odd to me that the Dufner looks like the painting it is, but while yours is also a painting, it looks (again, to me) more like a...
Hourglass. Now, why didn't that word spring to mind?
My guess is those big amounts are the funds behind the entire bond issue, and this bond is actually for 500 francs. That makes a lot more sense...
Looks to me like a government bond paying 4% interest. A carrier bond, meaning that whoever posses it can redeem it. Looks to me like the amount...
I'll bet it held a sand glass.
I agree - an amateur and probably a copy of the Dufner.
It's not majolica. Looks like porcelain, but could be something else. With no markings, unless you can find one identified online I think it is...
College for occupational therapy. Interesting, if that's it. More probably technical school - staats fachschule = state technical college?....
Could be German, or at least continental.
not nearly.
Stencil, or silhouette, or stencil silhouette? Even five years later and it might be tagged "psychedelic".
Shagreen is the type of hide called sharkskin. What gets called sharkskin does not always come from sharks. If it's natural hide, it could also...
Sharkskin = shagreen
I think it says Marmorzellan and may be by Galluba and Hoffman. [ATTACH]...
Probably just a printer's logo or trade mark. Don't know who.
It could just be that they didn't know and didn't want to commit.
They look slip decorated. I like these. I'm thinking earlier - maybe 1910s or '20s. Somebody knows who made them and I think it's worth taking...
When you see equal sized holes like that, it's unlikely that it was meant to be functional.
So true. So true.
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