Kitchener, Ontario was Berlin before 1916.
Amazing! Glad you like it.
@xiaowen pan was asking about this mark just recently. https://www.antiquers.com/threads/does-anybody-know-this-figurines-mark.60070/#post-3793551
Came across this the other day. [ATTACH] This expression compelled me to buy it: [ATTACH] It's from 1900. The illustration is by Abel Faivre...
I found nothing substantial. This was my source: http://www.clausewitz.com/graphics/ClausewitzBusteInventory.pdf Now when I see something like...
Made in Japan [IMG]
The sculptor was probably Theodor Litke, 1847-1902, Berlin. The subject is possibly Kaiser Wihelm II.
"tazza" might be a word to search.
Here's a useful article on rank badges: https://journalofantiques.com/features/chinese-rank-badges/ Yours (assuming it to be the real deal) would...
Given the time period, and the aggravation he was causing the French, it stands to reason that he was receiving support from, and had contact...
Any chance it's over-painted?
Whose estate was it? Might be this guy: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/ken-hill-dead-1.5877740 I find this article ambiguous, but from...
How big is it? It's very reminiscent of a rank badge.
Looking around, I seem to have only one frame of the type. This incarnation uses a spring clip to hold a canvas board in place. [ATTACH]...
I remember those frames. They were popular in the '70s and '80s. If Kulicke innovated the system, it was soon being imitated by many others. I...
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/25789/kyoto-the-great-bridge-at-sanjo-keishi-sanjo-ohashi-from-the-series-fifty-three-stations-of-the-tokaido-tokaid...
OK... I'll change my mind about the mark on yours. You might try Ginori.
My misunderstanding.
No. This is offset lithography.
My guess is that K was the painter. There might be a maker's mark under that paper on the bottom - but maybe not.
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