The "brands" are a good sign. They are guild marks that had to be applied under penalty of fines. Yours are for the city of Antwerp....
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/160822-glit--iceland--lava-ceramics
The address on yours is 407-429 Dearborn Ave. According to Roaring20s info, that puts it 1901-1906. Consistent with the inscription. Is it that...
According to what source? Could this be an unrecorded edition?
According to Wikipedia, it's not a problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.A._Donohue_%26_Co.
Is the decoration under the glaze or over? It's always possible that the plate was decorated by a third party.
It looks like you've got EPNS there, which is electroplated nickle silver.
They don't seem to be showing the lots for Part II. I hope you do well.
I think the chief reason to doubt the signature is the broad stroke underneath it, which none of the other examples show. But there are a million...
Also says P.S.Co. on that jacket, which is likely Public Service Company. There were many such.
I think possibly spikes for climbing telegraph poles or even trees.
I've seen a glass with a broken foot given a wooden replacement.
No mark on the bottom? You should show the bottom anyhow. The decoration is called Chinoiserie, which is a European interpretation of a Chinese...
And then there's the issue of differentiating between art and technique. Is a great technician necessarily a great artist? Can a thing be art if...
Lots of joolies here and I'm not one. Just saying that beads can be restrung, so the beads could be one period (or several) and the configuration...
Thank you.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/kpm-porcelain-martius-figure-271754490 [ATTACH]
St Anthony is now a tourist destination. It's the stepping-off point to L'Anse aux Meadows, the earliest known Viking site in North America.
The Grenfell mission was founded in 1892, but online sources say the workshops that produced these things were started in 1906. Doesn't mean they...
Those pulls are very distinctive, but if that's masonite on the back it has to be later than the mid-'20s.
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