Chip-carved? Tramp Art?
Adams-style, neo-classical revival, gadrooned
I'd guess it's a stand for something.
That's C M HR and it's a Hutschenreuther mark from the first decade or so of the 1900s. The 2 digit number is a size code. The plaque was...
I think a newsreel from the 1930s would have definite collector appeal. Maybe a local library (or school) would have a projector that would...
Hey... that's a painting of 'plenty'... food for the table and a variety of it. I'm not sure that it's advantageous to think that meat comes on a...
Tolkien was a philologist at Oxford. The Elder Eddas, collected medieval Nordic poetry, was major material for his researches and writings. Not...
To Stefan Jonsson Many thanks from the members (townspeople? citizens?) of W. Karup for 30 years of zealous service to the municipality...
A flow blue plate by Myott. The pattern is Monarch and it dates around 1907, which seems to me to be pretty late for flow blue. [IMG] [IMG]
At that age, how can you be sure it's a girl?
My approach would be three layers of glass: a clear base, then a yellow casing followed by a followed by a second, thinner, casing in pink (more...
To use it: you put the mold in the box, pack the box with butter, then push on the mold to extract the butter block from the box.
I wonder how many people actually have a print of Mona Lisa hanging in their house. I bet a larger number have the bath towel. Which, if you...
I think it's acid etched cameo glass.
Things like that are frequently thematic. Could they represent the four seasons?
It's like LBJ with the beagles.
I think this is Japanese and that chip pretty much kills its value. You can check the Swan Lake pattern on eBay, while you wait for the better...
Incident of the French Camp Robert Browning YOU know, we French storm’d Ratisbon: A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our...
Looks like cast aluminum to me. Could be zinc, I suppose. Don't think it's silver.
At a guess, I think the one on the upper left is European (maybe Dutch?). The other two look Japanese to me, but of no particular merit.
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