Why say "badly formed"? I'd say gourd-shaped.
This mark has similarities, but obviously not the same: [ATTACH]
Toyokuni III: Fuwa Banzaemon http://www.printsofjapan.com/My Webs/myweb2/toyokuni_iii_fuwa_banzaemon.htm
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_2018-3021-175
Archival framing can be expensive. Have you had the prints appraised? That might be a good first step....
Apparently Humpty is a version of a story also known as 'Fearless Ivan and his faithful horse Double-Hump: a Russian folk tale"
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You can keep adding minuses. Sometimes that will work. -pinterest -ebay -1stdibs etc etc etc
If you search Longchamps Barbotine -Pinterest... that will filter out most of the initial Pinterest images
If it looks really 3D and shifts as you turn the plate... Hologram.
This seems to be the cartouche that led to the Toyokuni attribution: [ATTACH] You can read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Toyokuni...
There was more than one. And this might be by someone else.
I haven't found this particular print (woodblock, btw, rather than ink block), but there are similar prints that are identified as Kabuki actors...
Found this online: [IMG] which said Edme Samson as well. The link had something to do with r.ebay.com, which apparently has something to do with...
Konitz Porcelain Factory Metzel Brothers (Konitzer Porzellanfabrik Gebr. Metzel), 1909-1945
The link isn't taking me anywhere. Just search eBay = Vanity Fair Chromo
I think Roaring20s is probably right about the right-angle insert. It's unusual and possibly made more for show than use. Maybe made by someone...
Look for the dots. The originals were chromos and wont have them. The originals were also on a stiff paper that tones with time. Thin, flexible...
An AbeBooks link:...
Now that you mention it, I have seen the blank shape before, but this seems to be a representation correct in the details, easily mistaken for the...
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