That handwriting is willfully illegible.
If the relic fluoresced, now that would be something.
His price - or at least part of it, we haven't talked seriously - is his pick of the cameos.
Better for them to represent it that way. They could get a hefty fine if caught selling it. Here in NYC flea market sellers have taken to...
I can't think what other maiden would be chained up that way, but no rock? No monster? One of my nicest cameos is a signed French one of the...
Censer was my immediate reaction. Then I thought it would be difficult to place & light the incense down inside, but stick incense might do just...
The little red button is the bit of cloth under glass or plastic. You do not need to go overseas to bring home a souvenir of Mother Cabrini. She...
Thank you, Kronos. Very kind of you, as always.
The Icarus & Prometheus painting has some appeal for me, but more for subject than execution.
In case you were in any doubt, the beautiful elephant head on the walking stick is ivory.
For my signed cameos, which are only a fraction of my collection but the ones that will do best at auction someday, I have simply made a Word doc...
It must feel like liquid gold. I agree with OBB's observation that it is likely to be Italian. Have you checked it very carefully for marks,...
For me it has gotta be the Andromeda. Could we get a closeup when the light returns?
That one would work fine as a cricket cage, but yours is significantly different, isn't it? There are perforations only up by the shoulders, so...
Painter's name looks like K Schoenman to me. No luck with Google for a painter. [ATTACH]
Well, it could certainly keep a cricket trapped, but the cricket cages I have seen look like little cages.
Welcome, Pearly. At today's gold prices, that's a small fortune you would be wearing around your neck. According to GoldCalc. com, if the weight...
My first thought is music cabinet, although the drawers seem a little deep. All those locks do suggest valuables like the family plate.
I don't see anything remarkable about the way the metal collar reflects back the UV light; most of what is around it also looks blue in the photo.
Ceremonial/decorative I think. The scene on both sides looks like Krishna playing the flute with a couple of gopis (milkmaids) flanking him....
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