I am too. Hard to explain why, subtle cues.
Is even the flat bottom only a little cold when you first touch it?
I don't think the lobster claw is a repair. The end holding it has been finished off like all the others & could just as easily have been...
I don't think you could buy them for any less new, retail. The one being broken takes away monetarily, if not so much aesthetically. (Looks well...
They look cast to me, although reproductions in cast marble can still cost a few pennies. I'd steer clear, but don't know the nature of your...
I'm most impressed that the lid still fits snuff box tight. What a great find!
Those are Bertel Thorvaldsen's designs for the Ages of Man. The hunter bringing meat home to his family appears on cameos regularly.
Cool. And, as usual, INH - WOW!
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I also love the lamp & wish I had some insight into its making. Sensibility is Tiffany era/art nouveau. Would such a lamp have been reproduced in...
Uh huh.
Definitely a him. He might be known as a specific legendary/mythological figure, but for now he'll have to be youth wearing fillet.
Although it sort of looks like an asterisk, think you're right & it's a Chinese character impressed in the clay.
If I were Taupou, I'd want to see the bottom.
Textured?
Our resident jewellery restoration genius is @kyratango If a stone cannot be found, she may have ideas for how you could disguise the gaps with...
Other way up. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Actually looks like there could be the lotus that is the national mark for Egypt, followed by a date letter....
These sets were the sort of thing adult women wore to parties in the later 1950s/early 60s. Aurora borealis (AB) is the term for these iridescent...
Think it's Egyptian. That looks like Nekhbet on top of the handle & think I see an 800 silver mark below her on the back.
When you photograph again, we want to see your little dog too. What a world.
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