That was my first thought, until I read on further. So it's really a 4-color specimen!
So not a doorstop? :hilarious: Then they go on to try to make out it's 3 colors, although their blue-green & their dark cobalt look like the...
Thank you. :happy:
Think the specimen we're considering is the one shown & described as #13 in kraftblue's great reference book. Sounds like it had to be applied...
So Joseph McCarthy was a plagiarist too.
With only the photos to go by, that was my thought too, a very gentle, superficial cleaning with simple soap & water to remove whatever comes away...
With AJ's imprimatur on the beads, don't think you need to worry too much about the 'shoelaces'. From here they look like they could be leather?...
It looks like the same frame, left in a peat bog for a while to age. The one my mother bought was new at the time, not antique.
Doorstop?
Text says they were printed in red. One of which is in red. I honestly think it is moonshine to think the posted pair are anything other than...
I expected in to say pinx, but can't see it. Do see inv. http://www.philaprintshop.com/abbrtb.html#I Think you are correct, it is Tomkins'...
Not 'finu'; that thing that looks like an f is the last s from Tomkins. Tomkins inv., designed it. Then 'et sculpt:', and engraver [was].
In the mid-60s, my mother bought an eclectic group of pieces to hang over the living room sofa. One of them was L'Innocent Badinage, in that same...
A note on 1stdibs: everything is expensive; not everything is correctly described or appropriately priced.
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/asian-art-furniture/ceramics/chinese-export-ceramic-low-stand-hand-painted-rose-medallion-circa-1900/id-f_12270111/
Remind me never to try to make a living as a diamond photographer. Took a stab at capturing the effect of the UV light on the one diamond. My...
Those overlong pin stems would have let you bury the end back into the fabric as a safety measure; better ones had guard chains as well. The...
But historians love this kind of thing as primary sources.
With special dispensation from the Pope. That caught my attention too. The cameo is inscribed on the front: M. Beat. Vit. History is not my...
This is a stretch of logic, but, maybe this is a clue they were made in Occupied Japan? It seems natural that much of Japan's durable export...
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