Offered for giveaway here? By golly, toss my name in the hat!
"Articulated" means having moveable parts, but "mechanical" does seem to be the word as applied to postcards. It's new to me. Try searching...
From Wikipedia: Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.,[1] July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and...
I don't think this person is that much of an outsider.
I don't know this artist, but looking online, Nicolas Pichon has worked in this format though his works seem much denser. [IMG] It's possible...
There don't seem to be a lot of articulated postcards out there. Here's one of the very few I've seen (and yours is more complicated and in...
If you've got any vinyl records kicking around, try your UV light on them. The results can be surprising.
Congrats Van Poperin!
Incised numbers are hand drawn into the clay. Impressed numbers are made with tools that have the number raised on a stamping surface.
I think they are low-grade ceramic, hastily made, and hastily decal decorated. I doubt they were ever expensive... bargain basement stuff....
I didn't know there were wild peacocks in the U.S., but I guess there are in Florida.
You can borrow them for a minute, but I'll need them back. [ATTACH]
Little Toot, Tuggy the Tugboat, Tuffy the Tugboat, Scruffy the Tugboat - all children's stories.
I would guess this is chromolithography. Looks like a chromo, and even though there are painting techniques that hide brushwork, the color...
In this instance, I just looked up Hungarian porcelain, eliminated the names that were familiar (and a couple that weren't) and ended up with Drasche.
I would guess it was a Dimar-Urbach blank, decorated by whoever did that other siggy. XI '91 = November 1991?
Drasche porcelain, Budapest
This snuff bottle is already double the high estimate: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/96573870_chinese-carved-agate-snuff-bottle
Not Sevres, if that's what you mean. I think there's a good chance it's Japanese.
Misspelling the name is the kind of thing that I would expect from a Chinese copy - but that's just my opinion. The bases do look different to...
Separate names with a comma.
