Could it be lead?
There are lines there that may be indicative of a fuller. The tang, if it is one, should certainly be longer, but it might be broken. As the...
The only double headed arrow I find in Rontgen is Christian Nonne of Geisshubel, though the mark in Ronten has an initial in the middle. It is...
Looks silkscreened.
For couriers like FedEx and UPS the price goes through the roof when you cross an international border - brokerage fees and all that. In Canada,...
I would agree with formica. I think of melamine as tissue thin over chipboard and cheap.
This is slip decoration, but not what people like to call moriage. Glossy vs. matte. Maybe it has something to do with the application. This...
You might try "bas relief" as a descriptor. Base metal with applied color patination.
Pretty sure its a print, but what kind I can't say. The color on the figures in particular looks like washes over something. Looks like hand...
Check the back sides of them. They'll sometimes have an impressed mark there rather than on the bottom. The arrow mark might be in Rontgen, but...
Then you'll want to check the spelling, because I probably got it wrong. I'm certain it will be on the Porcelain Marks & More site. Both...
Well... I'm not exactly wrong. Volkstedt is in Thuringia and it is the Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanfabrik. I know this mark in particular...
I believe that's the Alteste Porcelain factory of Thuringia. Shoot - now I'm going to have to look it up.
Doesn't seem chubby to me. Stylistically, I think this looks more mid-century, post WWII, than turn of the century. [ATTACH]
Rasputin?
I don't know that they are better than factory painting quality. They may be autograph pieces, which is to say by an individual artist. It is...
There's an unfortunate red reflection in those photos that ends up looking like damage. But it's a nice pot.
Prosthetic noses?
I think that transfer pattern, as shown, is upside down. It's a flowering tree (Prunus it would be called) with stylized ribbon entwined in the...
search Etruscan Revival and I think you will see pieces with affinities.
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