Here's a 3-generation photo that I think is a platinum print: [IMG] And a publicity shot for the actress Ada Webster: [IMG]
Those two women just had me thinking Steven King's The Shining. And the guy middle back in the picnic photo... you had Rasputin in your Family?...
Not anything with which I'm familiar. From Googling, I'd guess that the company name was Ruscha, the designer was Adele Bolz, and the decoration...
Cool piece. I would call it wax resist rather than sgraffito. It's not that the pattern was scratched into the surface, but that the surface was...
I can't read the lettering under the Royal Delft mark, but if you can, this site might be useful:...
Can't ID it, but my first impression of the vase/celery is that it is much later, possibly deco, but more likely Eastern European...
I don't have this anymore, but it was a hand tinted photo of Lake Louise in Banff. The tinting was particularly well done. [IMG] Another...
I don't think there's much to say about the drawing. It could have been done anytime over a period of hundreds of years, and pretty much...
Good to know. I tend to be a glass-half-empty kind of guy.
I'm not really sure. (It's Hodgkinson & Co.) Is that post why your mood setting is "not amused"?
Those look like pencil written marks. Probably only relevant to whoever wrote them. Is the 16 written on the back of the print, or on those 2...
If you hold the paper up to the light you may see a maker's mark embedded in it. It's a long shot, but it may be possible to identify and date...
The sword is called a falchion (not that that helps). Any watermark in the paper?
It's interesting that you have right and left. I can imagine these placed at the entrance to a temple, though I don't know if the bowls would be...
I don't think it's a wishing well. It's a Japanese form of water bucket.
Vizagapatam seems to be the word to use (returns some very interesting Google images). The ivory might be laid over buffalo horn. My guess...
Looks like raku firing.
Could also be hot glass shears: http://www.glasscraftinc.com/home/gla/smartlist_563/shears.html
No. Don't try to float it. No reason to get it unnecessarily wet. Your idea about finding a knowledgeable person to give it a hands-on...
Seems to me that if it's boxwood, it would seem light and would float in water. Most of the resin things I've had have seemed heavy for their...
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