That's below the high auction estimate. https://www.antiquers.com/threads/happy-snuff-boxes-for-everybody-who-collects-them.28115/#post-373540...
Oscar Salzer was a collector and gallery operator in Los Angeles. There's a catalog of his collection: Portraits of Objects, Oscar and Maria...
My impression of Cordey is that the hair on their figurines usually receives extra attention. It's a cute figurine, but fairly generic in its...
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Over here, they are called bookends. Just saying. I haven't heard them called bookshelters before, and its not a search term that would have...
I think the "backed on linen" would be a post-market thing.
Kudos on your recreation. I'm impressed. Where did you get the data, and what program did you use? Were you working from published materials?
I had one as well... closer to jakatch's than aaroncab's in color. I think the 471 is the mold, or shape, number, and the 14 is the nominal...
Looks like not a bad size for a snuff bottle.
I liked Stan Washburn's "The true account of the death by violence of George's dragon"... in which the dragon spends busy days ridding a...
Might be an artist named Wess. Not familiar with pressed paper art. If the patterning appears on the reverse, then I would call it embossed. If...
I should point out that I can't be sure, from the photos, that your picture is a colored version of the print I named. It's just that the size...
It's likely a hand colored engraving. The picture, which is in Dresden, was engraved by William French, c1840, for the Albert Henry Payne...
It has a Mideastern look to me. Might be related to an Egyptian type called a glaive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wove_paper
It's called a singerie, though that doesn't seem to me to be a common term....
Take it to a museum. Buried that deep, always a chance it could be ancient. I agree with "do not scrub"!
I don't think I've ever heard of Brownhills. That's nice.
I think these are decorative and not meant as actual portraits of real people. Pseudo-ancestor portraits. I agree about the legs, but that's...
Orient & Flume?
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