Without a lid, it's a good pen holder. Snuff is still made today.
You want to find someone who can finish polishing that side.
The first one makes me think Gloria Swanson
Here's a "Lady and Unicorn" Tapestry c1500: [IMG]
If you rub it, or heat it slightly does it give off an odor? For myself, I would taste it, but I leave that decision up to you.
[ATTACH] It seems to me the issue is: are these little nubbins part of the drawer decoration? [ATTACH] It looks to me as if those elements...
Just as likely someone who has 7 now will have 8 come Saturday morning.
That's in the movie "The Longest Day" where one guy clicks once and hears two clicks in return and steps out to get shot, because the two clicks...
I think they look too good to be true. After Bartolozzi, after Bunbury, and my guess is long, long after. (Always happy to be proven wrong.)
They seem to be large, which suggests that they were marketed as decorative pieces rather than illustrating a book or magazine. Given that each...
I just look things up online like so many others. How big are they? It can make a difference. They have the look of steel plate engravings,...
Do you have a picture of the reverse? I'm just wondering if those lines go all the way through... something like filled fret work. It looks good...
It's a world of compromises already.
I don't think the first picture is worth repairing unless you're going to do it yourself. Even if you do that, it's simply not a very good...
Are you working to scale? You might use something like a Dremel tool to rout the lines and then fill them with a paste of gold-colored dust.
Don't know if it applies in this case, but occasionally silver is deliberately oxidized to look black.
Depose suggests French. People will call these butter pats, but can you see covering that pretty decoration with butter? Serving a piece of...
I haven't seen that motif before.
Fooled by the wear!
They don't look to me to be production pieces from a tool manufacturer; more like hand-made jigs cut from a piece of linear gear.
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