To my surprise, it has arrived. A heavy piece and very utilitarian. A bit shorter than I thought. Somehow I saw 37cm when seller said 35cm...
The image is all over the place - posters, greeting cards, mirrors, cushions - but no one says anything about origins. As Fig says: seems to be a...
If it's metal, I would guess zinc and from a linotype machine.
I would guess Japanese as it has the shape of a Japanese bell. It looks very nice.
I can't tell from pictures, but given that the others I've seen are B&W, I'd say mostly likely. Is there printing on the back?
I believe publications of the time could have colored prints (chromolithography), though they weren't the norm. Probably not the case here,...
I have a tile picture by Angelos Tsakirakis [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Collecting stock certificates is called scripophily, so that's a word you might want to consider for searching or selling.
Held up to light, laid paper looks like this: [ATTACH] It is the horizontal and vertical lines that show it to be laid paper. The cross pattern...
It looks to me like parchment paper rather than animal parchment. Parchment paper was introduced in 1847 (according to online sources): "In...
I've tried to find the original with no success. Curious to know what it is and hope there's a title under the mat. I thought the elliptical arch...
Don't know, but they're very nice. The finish matters! Don't tinker with it.
Could be a good buy regardless. Teapot collectors will mostly not be interested, and tobacco jar/humidor collectors are unlikely to see it with...
It doesn't look like a teapot to me. With that lid, I wonder if it is a tobacco humidor?
I sure hope it turns out to be the real deal. I think those large seals are uncommon. On some documents the seal would be protected in a silver...
No, definitely not regency. I would guess late Victorian. Does it bring to mind anything from Walter Scott?
I'll give you $3 for it right now!
I agree that the costume is iffy, but I see a woman (princess/queen) in flight with a child, and that's the context that came to mind. The...
I wonder if it might be Mary of Modena and James Francis Edward Stuart (James III). Mary smuggled James into France where he lived as pretender to...
Anduze is a place in southern France and there's more than one pottery there. I don't see any reason to suppose this isn't from there.
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