Earlier generations took penmanship waaaay more seriously than we do. Even in her 80s with arthritic fingers my aunt's handwriting was better...
With the right accessories, she can be a bacchante: [ATTACH]
Her own, keeping her robe from slipping off her shoulder. She's a popular lava model, given varying attributes to convert her to different figures.
Ceramics are not my field, cameos are, so I often have to research for original artwork. Hopefully one of our pottery people will have some ideas...
Is the Alva reproduction a miniature Japanese sword hilt?
She looks like a really finely cut Flora type. Noses are (almost) always the first thing to go on lava & hardstone cameos, so first thing I check...
It appears that this was originally an engraving, a black & white illustration for an 1869 book, Schiller-Galerie, which showed characters from...
It would seems you can have him on a shower curtain, if you want. [IMG] Patience. Often the way we have to proceed is to piece together clues...
William Tell?
Meaning owned by someone there? Made there? Both? Mixing gold colors seems to be popular with Italian makers.
Welcome Isabo. Is this the useless contraption that used to be at Vic Tanny places? [ATTACH]
You might be thinking about a bit that Marko started with post #237 in the Cameo Show & Tell thread. It was about this sort of thing: [ATTACH]...
Link no longer connects - goes off into the new eBay bizarro land of expired listings, but it was this sort of thing: [ATTACH]
If people can miss a baby gorilla, they would never spot a bit of aluminum foil hidden among silver on a wrist. :joyful:
Her name is M'Jukuu, Swahili for granddaughter. She was 4 or 5 months old when the photo was taken. Julia herself is from the first generation...
Look under her right hand. :cyclops:
I'm liking Annie Braugh too.
Not if you had only the photo of this side & did not know there was a repair there. Impressively creative. :kiss:
Foiled again! :joyful: It's because I've read now enough accounts of how you manage to cosmetically restore things using very inexpensive &...
Oops. Sorry. Didn't check. Probably thinking of Air Force. Still think emblem would not have been the place to start researching.
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