I alert someone at CARC if I find one of the Poniatowski gems on the market. They are not 'antique' (Imperial Roman or earlier); they were...
The car in second photo is c. 1955: [IMG]
To see all 40 gems in the Christie's sale: https://www.christies.com/SaleLanding/index.aspx?intsaleid=28329&lid=1&saletitle=#lot_6199212
The owners of that site are Oxford University's Classical Art Research Center, which I think is connected with the Ashmolean Museum. I would be...
They look pretty old, so could date to earlier 50s, when Americans still went freely.
Souvenir of Cuba?
Notice the shape of her mirror. :)
A friend brought the upcoming auction to my attention earlier in the week, suggesting I might want to go see it. That is a huge part of the...
If she didn't use it & not the kind of thing she would have bought, maybe a small gift, possibly from the person who made it? Know my mother...
BK, but I'm pretty terrible at deciphering these.
There is nothing to indicate the scene is taking place at night, which is curious, nothing other than the general good cheer to suggest a...
Like the inkwell!!!
Maybe it was a Russian Orthodox church.. :)
I keep thinking the kind of church fund raiser where they sell things like this & toilet paper roll covers & baked goods made by congregants,...
Agree. Karen Parker. Artist's proof.
Everything (almost) I know about jewellery made from early plastics. Most of the time I'm not very trusting. :kiss::kiss:
The world of the words of lawyers scares the rest of us. In the numismatic & glyptics worlds, obverse always means front & reverse always means back.
Now thoroughly confused. If D 35 is the only thing on the tag, that side is, by default, the obverse, the front, unless they were meant to be...
Nike dancing in the center, an arms trophy to her right.
The D looks stamped either by someone with very good eye-hand coordination or by machine; it is upright & centered. The numerals look applied...
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