Somehow the animals have a more Mayan or Central American flavour than Chinese.
Nothing adds up there. The hands are totally wrong for the apparent style of the dial which is a much earlier style than the relativly modern type...
Wadda you do when yous don't get the official contract for souvenirs? Makes some anyway! Moonshine or keys, it's the Chicago way!
It looks rather like the belts they give as boxing trophies. The Lonsdale belt but for champion of the township rather than the world.
If that's a deer, it must be a Giant Yum Yum Bird.
.increased my vocabulary today! No one ever goes away from here empty minded..........
I'll give it a day or two.............. On another page it has 'Garfield died 1881' Shame, I liked that cat.
A short winged raptor eating a dead rabbit. Very jolly. Probably symbolic of 'business ethics'. No useful ideas. [ATTACH]
It is silver, it is not sterling silver. Certainly European, possibly Italian. I can see another mark there that may be a makers mark. Style...
You are also welcome to 'purdonium' (a coal bucket), canterbury (music rack) tantalus (decanter set in box) bonheur de jour (small desk) and...
Fudging the data to fit the answer you want is not good research.
I'm trying to figure out if this medal is new. I forgot to answer this bit. Miniatures you can buy new now. This seller offers a choice of...
It looks like a Japanese girl playing a yokobue, and I'd say it was enamel painted and fired on white enamel, in a similar method to British...
Looks like May T. Witt Hopkins I can't see a De there although it could be a J.
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C. 1900 French ink stand or Standish, Japonaise was all the rage at the time.
It it is clear that no mirror or anything was meant to be placed on the other side The other side IS the mirror. Just not a silvered glass...
It is a miniature of a British General Service Medal (usually called a GSM). The bars represent campaigns served in, in the late 1950s, early 60s....
If the other side of the ping pong paddle is blank, it may be a Chinese bronze mirror. No glass, polished metal.
Could he represent the Fisher of Men? Or a fishing disciple? Just call it camel bone.
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