Going through a book of marks that I have, which gives only vague attributions, there was a mark not quite like this, but it did have C.P. and N...
It's a beautiful glaze.
I bought this inkwell broken. It was excruciatingly expensive by my lights, but less than a quarter the cost of one in perfect nick. There's a...
Single shot caps: [ATTACH]
All the letters of the alphabet combined in a single monogram: [ATTACH] From "American Text Book for Letters", Nathaniel Dearborn, Boston, !842
In that 3rd picture: is there something on the inside of the far rim?
Could be Jesus with the Elders. Luke 2: 42-52 The inscription is inconsistent with the passage (or so it seems to me), but it was clearly added...
I wouldn't have known what it was, and an idle guess would have been 1980s, not pre-WWII. Nice find. It pays to know.
Earrings for reindeer?
I don't doubt that it has a lot of currency (in several senses of the word), but it loses impact merely by being so academic and cliched. It's...
Don't you think it has a very art nouveau flavor to it? As an illustrator, I think Armour is more skillfull than OP's. OP's could be a linocut....
That "Devolved Parliament" seems very atypical for Bansky - more in the dogs-playing-poker vein than social comment or guerilla art.
The name is date is typical of a home decorator - someone who bought a blank and did the painting him or herself. I think the H&Cie is a Limoges...
They could be contemporary with my own great-grandparents. This photo can be closely dated to 1872: [ATTACH] Pressed paper (paper-mache) frames...
And then you have those cards that were made for one holiday and adapted to another (at least they look that way to me). Here's an example of...
It looks like a medieval seal in the center. If you can read some of the writing, you can probably place it exactly. How did it get so corroded?
Congrats, Tricia, and, yes, thanks for the offer Aquitaine!
You know, I'm going to take my name out of the hat. All those little kiddies will just have to make do with their Pokemon and stuff.
New Yorker, early '30s [ATTACH]
Aw, sure, toss my name in the hat. I like stamps... for kids... yeah, that's the story... for kids.
Separate names with a comma.
