Welcome, Tracey. Do you know anything in your family history that would support the idea that this came from the Middle East?
Exactly. When the youngest of what had been 5 cats became the only cat, he got very clingy & I felt he needed a friend, hence, a little buddy,...
This seems to be the consensus among all who have given their opinion, other than the OP, that there are too many inconsistencies.
There is something before the C in Company, although it kind of looks like N, as in Flagg 'n' Company. How many Canadian Flagg companies that...
Tried to make myself an expert on pre-Columbian pots with the help of Google. Those tiny handles seem to be a characteristic of some, but am not...
Are you discounting the one on the right in the first photo because it appears not to have a head?
In the same family - [IMG] http://www.ebay.com/itm/333093725735
If this were darkened & accessorized... [IMG]...
As far as my eye can measure, the 'rivets' are evenly spaced, including right through the 'patch', & on a level line.
Going by the size & lack of folds, the one at INH's link is from a quarto volume.
Seems a good chance it is solidly antique, even if not first edition. Pat is right about the type of paper & printing process. I'm having...
My bad, as they say. Getting a bit late & a bit blurry. But it would be useful if we can find out what formats the Histoire Universelle was...
Cats want you to be comfortable so they can be too. Not so sure about happy.
Why in the world would you hack away all around the rim, taking more copper than is needed for the patch & rendering the vessel very difficult to...
The height of the page suggests the volumes were in the octavo format. Unless Wiki is leading us astray, your print did not come from one of the...
Maybe when they summarized the business they were in, they preferred to emphasize the almost-jewellery aspect over things like key chain tags that...
From the Wiki entry: Another edition in quarto format was printed by the Imprimerie royale in 36 volumes (1774–1804). It consisted of 28 volumes...
INH does it again. Guessing that one is earlier, since it appeared in a Supplement, while OP's was properly incorporated into Volume I, along...
Robert Benard is listed as an illustrator in library records. Quite an ambitious work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_Naturelle
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