I can't see this as an actual printing plate... just a decorative picture.
When they're famous, everyone will know.
I agree that the mountain painting looks like factory art, but to my eye the boat painting looks like an autograph piece. Whoever painted it...
Don't know, but I like it. Keywords: Pan, satyr, faun?
This is a box I made that uses a moon face pressed glass jewel in the lid: [IMG] Somewhere I have have an iridized scarab, that I intended to...
Don't know, but seam ripper sounds like a possibility to me. That one end might look like an exacto blade, but I doubt it was made for cutting....
The Egyptian glass could be recent. Pressed glass "jewels" were being produced in the '80s. They were available through stained glass suppliers...
Shaped with power tools for sure. Possibly soapstone.
First impression is Austrian, but that's about as wild as a guess can get. I've never seen the like.
Looks like it needs to be run through some mutton fat.
Is it printed on foam-core material?
The motifs look Japanese to me. The rendering seems western. Might be Dutch.
The best stuff is the best stuff, regardless of when it was made. I'm usually most enthusiastic about the thing I haven't seen previously.
Now I want cake... on a stand.
My parents had one of those when I was a kid. I had forgotten about it completely.
I don't think it's a swan. Try snow goose.
Don't bother. It's meant to be there and removing it is not worth the effort.
The entire Goodwill chain in Southern Ontario shut down without notice back in January of this year. More than 400 people out of work. Don't...
I don't think there's any doubt that it's cast, as verybrad said.
You would have to find someone familiar with the map in its original context. I believe it came out of a book - an atlas. An uninformed guess...
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