Actually I recognized the name - I had/have quite a collection of miniatures (the "good" ones have all been sold). There are usually a few...
C.J. Traill-Hill was a miniaturist, not a silversmith exactly, and produced not only silver but furniture, etc.
Even with a magnifier, these eyes can't see this stone absolutely clearly, but it looks like shattuckite to me
Oh. those clean, shiny, empty tabletops and surfaces waiting to be cluttered..........................
With all due respect, ma'am, I would rather walk down 5th Avenue stark naked with my hair on fire than "publish" a photo of me (or mine) from the...
Ach! 12 West - we MUST have "danced into" each other more than once...........were you there the night Bianca Jager took "relays" of us out to the...
Oh if I could only wipe out the 70s. Oh if I could only re-live the 70s........................
Thank you for identifying this for me! I have one sans box and have been trying to identify it for years!
Welcome! You will find that while there are dealers and collectors of a wide variety of items here, one of the things most of us "collect" are...
Love the collection - though I have to admit that very early this morning I awoke screaming "Get them off me! They are biting and pecking me!...
Only time have seen glass over oil is when the painting was purposely hung over a mantle. We had a (valuable) portrait of an ancestor that hung...
If you are looking for a suitable venue for donation, check out the Pritzker Museum in Chicago - they have a comprehensive Civil War section and...
SAVING it? I'm having it tattooed on my sit-upon..................Let me know if I owe anyone copyright fees as I WILL be showing it...
And they don't work in half my older lamps either...........apparently the bases are too short. I'm currently looking for a "60 watt black...
By the way - I do believe that Vreeland did have her cash ironed - she used to boast of it often enough for it to be true..........and back in...
Ah, "Infamous" with Sandra Bullock as Lee - I forget who played Vreeland (Toby Somebody played Capote). Bullock/Vreeland tells Capote that her...
That was Diana Vreeland - I don't think Lee even keeps a maid these days........
I find it interesting that the same basic form (on the two smaller pieces) was in use from "c1850 to c1910" to post-1940. It just seems that they...
Thank you! I figured it wasn't as old as I ......................
Then I can assume from the markings on this bit that it is much more recent? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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