likely a mezzotint.
How is it traveling? If it's just being passed from hand to hand, no particular packing is required (a blanket would be sufficient); just keep it...
Is it just a figurine, or is it a humidor? Is the cap a lid?
It's not quite an infinity shape as the loops have definite ends.
It looks like an old print to me, but in that condition it probably has little value. Not too difficult to find similar in much better condition.
No fair having collectors with access to DeLorean Flux Capacitors.
This is new to me (can't even say that Uneeda Biscuits rings a bell), but I guess he was quite the product mascot in his day. Lots of associated...
A dairy farm? [ATTACH]
Incredible lamp! You should definitely add it to the lamp thread.
Try "The Charioteer of Delphi" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charioteer_of_Delphi A souvenir copy.
SS could be stainless steel. Wouldn't they want to be more obvious if it were sterling? I agree that it's a nice design. Very - um - mechanical.
The decorating technique is called moriage.
Could be.
Maybe whale (orca)?
This painting (by Michel-Barthelemy Ollivier) shows a dinner party held by the Prince de Conti in 1766. Candle lit. [ATTACH]
If it's French, and from the 3rd quarter of the 19thC (I don't know if any of that is true), it would be from the period of Napoleon III....
Is that snake skin?
Thanks for the ID on the planter! I have no problem calling the bird a Goldfinch, but I'll also call it a Parakeet and a Budgie and probably add...
Two more items I thought would be easy to ID. I thought they might both be Royal Copley. The planter is about 7" long, 5 1/2" to top of parakeet,...
Pure guess would be Bohemian, 1950s.
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