Pochoir can yield some fairly complex results.
Thanks for the ID. I would not have imagined part of that mark to be the letter "T". Until I took the photo, I thought it was a lion (or boar......
Another thing bought in the '70s. About 1 7/8" across (inside), 1 3/4" high. Conveniently dated 1907. Weighs 52g. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
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No records. Not particularly good restaurants. I just embarrass the people I'm with.
Don't mean to take this back to the original topic, but when I go to a restaurant, I check the marks on the china and other tablewares.
It looks to me like a "view camera", a camera used for large format photos. The camera would be aimed and focused using a ground glass plate (the...
Maybe you could look at biscuit tins: https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=OL-5XPW6A4XktQXLnITYDw&q=%22biscuit+tin%22+butterflies
The name does not look to me like it was typeset, so I'd guess it's the artist.
Check Max Dannhorn and Villeroy and Boch / Mettlach as per this thread: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/porcelain-tray-metal-rim-age-use.18384/
I don't think it's an acorn. More like a crown over a shield. Can't make out what's on the shield. [ATTACH]
Found this from a magazine called "The Athenaeum" published in 1893 (but perhaps you already know it). It really doesn't add much.: [ATTACH]...
Looks like that toddler might have still been wearing that outfit three years later.
It's a lot of info to cram into 50 pages. Where's the chapter on How to Domesticate a Young Lady?
Silver gelatin are the most common black and white photographs. It's the type of film used for snapshots before color. Of course, it was used...
It's an amateur painting. It has it's charm, but it's no undiscovered masterpiece. You want to be careful cleaning it: sometimes paintings like...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Well... maybe not. In the mid-1950s, Quaker Oats held a cereal promotion in which a deed for a square inch of land near...
On that same (and only) trip I was staying at a hostel in Paris when someone strted talking about the post card he had bought that day. I had...
When I was doing the bumming around Europe thing (it's vintage now), I visited a music-box museum in Utrecht and bought this postcard. The rather...
Is that plywood, or a solid board?
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