I've read that in the 18th and 19th C, a popular hobby pastime was lathe turning with miniature table lathes. Are the pieces of this circular, or...
Looks good, i-n-d.
I didn't go searching, but that is interesting information. The last page of volume 1 of this set shows some other books published by Engelmann:...
Just a bit of show and tell. (My library has been boxed and stuffed, helter-skelter, in a closet for decades. I'm just now hauling things out and...
"Treen" this type of work is called.
Seems to be part of a funeral service for the person named. A prayer for the dead?
I'd call it spectacular. I can't look at something like that without marveling at all the labor that must have gone into assembling it.
There is a "Munich Maid" thing out there, but I still can't find this.
I think it's cool, but no idea about the maker. Might be worth taking a look at doll manufacturers?
These artists seem to be itinerant Americans painting in the U.S. around the mid-19thC (from that link). Wagner is a fairly common name. I...
How big is it? Is it painted on porcelain? [ATTACH]
Once again, I didn't see all the pictures. The scene pre-dates Lucas. I searched Google Images, keywords only, for the second line of text,...
Apparently it's a Currier and Ives print, and you can buy them at Walmart. There must be originals out there, but the odds are against yours...
Sounds like it might be German by Christian Nonne or Unger Schneider. Just a couple names you might check.
I think those characters simply read Nippon....
Isn't that why they invented penicillin?
Every once in a while I buy grocery store rice pudding. Don't remember the brand, but it comes in a plastic tub.
It seems to me that rice pudding is primarily rice mixed with condensed milk.
Siggy doesn't look the same.
I suppose you could use it for either, but I think 'condensed' would be more common. Condensed milk has a massive concentration of added sugar,...
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