Some similarity to Van Cort's Lewis & Clark survey compass, but not it. Does look like a surveyor compass, though.
Draftsman's/Draughtsman's lamp?
Now & again I stumble into a cameo I might easily have missed because the description is so sketchy or inaccurate. That one may not be quite...
India, contemporary. Silver is probably all sterling. See a few examples here.
Exactly. Pleased to meet you, AuDragon.
The scholarly courtesy is to ask if you want to publish it first yourself.
Yes, & site shows a hat like yours, IDed as K of C.
Have you ever seen a chamber pot that did look comfortable?
Another word is cockade. We're nothing if not interested.
If he did this without your permission or even giving you credit, he's no scholar!
I have one very similar: beveled mirrors; 2 little turned wood feet for each panel; carved decoration around the edge; hanging chain. The panel...
Stein or chamber pot?!
I didn't understand the time frame correctly. Yeah, that would do it. Did you have any words for the blogger that you shared with him? Did you...
I was thinking K of C. Maybe KFC? :joyful:
Sorry, I did not express that well. Where I wonder if there was ever any influence is in the pose of 'crouching' or 'bathing' Venus & that of...
I almost begin to think this is what separates 'experts' from devoted amateurs. I still think of myself as the latter, because I am certain much...
To be sure, if I am seriously interested in a piece about which I know more than the seller, I feel no necessity to share the info with them. It...
Quite a tale! By chance, it wasn't the expert dealer who was so sure it was not Dennis who placed the winning bid, was it? Do you think the news...
Reply is par for the course: Good morning, our GIA certified, in house gemologist is certain that this is hard stone and not glass. Thank You...
I wonder whether the similarity of the Balinese ladies to artistic renderings of Venus bathing or at her toilette is just natural convergence or...
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