Tell you what, immigrant or not, that Bear is cool as can be! Similar to William the Hippo at the MET. COOL! [ATTACH] [MEDIA]
And no, Germany ain't gonna give back that Bear, they have a decent historical claim if Davey info is correct.
Yeah! LOL, Let us get back to THE BEAR! Immigration is a tricky subject, even here in America where we are all immigrants, mostly legal though....
Yeah, I hear you but, nations don't have permanent friends or good neighbors, nations only have permanent interests...........Lord Palmerston
Well, I don't know about how this is supposed to work & although I am not a lawyer I am from Washington DC, a town where if you throw a rock out...
AHA! Poland may not get this Bear then, not sure how this is supposed to work exactly.
Me Too!
I wonder, was Slupsk Poland a part of Germany in 1887 when the Bear was found?
This "bear of happiness" gets around!
[IMG] Happiness "Niedźwiadek Szczęścia" is an amber figurine that was found near Słupsk in 1887. According to the then scholars who researched the...
Still, I am happy the Bear lives on & wasn't lost during the war, cool little piece.
LOL, yeah, i guess. Odd Poland hasn't asked for it back! Cool Bear, no doubt. Yes, some of those links are dead.
" Until 1945 the ‘amber bear of happiness‘ was on display at a museum in Szczecin until it “mysteriously disappeared”…. The bear resurfaced in...
This rolled across my twitter feed this morning The amber bear amulet was found in 1887 in a peat bog near Slupsk,Poland. When the figure was...
Yes, very little I am afraid. Additionally this looks like a "married" piece, i.e. the top & bottom originally went to something else.
Yep, it's UNAMIMOUS! Often called "jacobean revival" popular in 1st quarter 20th century. Value is not much, there is a lot of this furniture...
Yeah is, VERY cool! I am guessing it displayed something valuable considering the quality of the woodwork.
Here is an Empire Pier table at the MET C. 1815 built by Charles-Honoré Lannuier in NYC [ATTACH]
Yep, I agree, it has Empire features like gilded hardware & paw/beast feet
I think those are called "french" dovetails. There were a lot of dovetail experiments with drawer boxes in america from 1850-1900, probably the...
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