Komo is spot-on, as usual. I might add, if it was not entirely clear, that this mask is likely not by a Hunt family member, though certainly of...
I found a website, which you might have seen, which says the right-to-left writing indicates a pre-1948 time period. Check their images to see...
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Just for reference, here's the website of a contemporary gusle maker, showing many very intricate instruments. A lot of it is not in English,...
Yes, I've heard of that. I suspect the wooden pegs are the original older ones; then when the head became loose, metal nails or the like were...
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If you wanted to make it playable, I'm not sure where you would find a luthier with gusle experience - you might check in the Croatian community...
I'm not real familiar with the gusle, but that is the bridge; the one string would run through it, and it would sit on top of the leather head....
That does look like quite a close match. I can't make a guess as to whether the goblet is 19th or 20th century though.
Russian federation: [ATTACH] Greek Orthodox Church: [ATTACH] And there are probably a number of other possibilities; neither is an exact match...
I came across that useful Wiki article while researching that other thread involving a double-headed eagle. With one foot holding a sword, the...
Yes; I was probably not very clear. I have some souvenir knives that my parents got in the middle east around 1960; they are so dull, and made...
Age and rarity....I'm sure others will have opinions....a rough guess to age: not more than 40 years old (1977 or later). Rarity....is this of...
Welcome! I like netsuke, and have one or two, not of great quality but I found them attractive.
To be more precise what I meant in the centered vs offset discussion is that a particular style of knife will never vary, not that one ethnic...
Richard: somewhat belatedly, please allow me to welcome you to the forum.
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