Thanks, Shi, for the link.
Love it! Early nerd jewelery!
The only starch I have is a spray bottle starch -- is there another kind? I wonder if that trick would work for table cloths, too?
It's possible it just says "pewter" in Chinese but of course, I don't know for sure!
Weirdly, I was rubbing pearl necklaces on my teeth this past Thursday. Two necklaces: one was smooth feeling and the other was definitely...
Seen a number of similarly decorated items ID'd as Japanese as well as Chinese (maybe Nuffsaid would know definitively), but usually late...
Yeah, well, Flosa is as good as Flora given that handwriting! Glad you got it figured out!
OP will have to determine if it's to be "i" or not to be "i." ;)
H. L. Bates, pretty sure. Amateur, I would think, but not folk art. Nice old oak frame. Yeah, perspective (not scale) is off, so it would be...
Well, that's what I call it -- the broken lines suggest a template that is painted over and then the painter adds/fills in after. The darker blue...
Oops! Cross-posted. Redondo makes sense, but I thought initially that the first letter might be an "F." Flora?
Gad, that handwriting is awful! LOL! Maybe trace it on a piece of paper and more of it will be comprehensible. The "a"s are very loopy.
Why is that most art depicting monks, depict them drinking all the time? Occasionally you see them writing at a desk, but mostly drinking. I'm...
Well, it might sell on ebay, but not for a lot, I suspect. It is a large size and may be something someone would like because of it's size.
I am a child of handwriting, too, and I thought that was a dot over an "i" but then decided that it's a brown dot of paint instead of a dotted...
So nice to see the whole Hornsea set -- so often things like that are missing pieces.
LOL -- I love the shell guy! Is that a halo or a hat on his head? ;)
Not a fake -- it is using a mark that is not copyrighted (like the capodimonte N and coronet) which is legal.
Many of the ebay Booksellers boardies wound up at this site: http://www.bookthink.com/php3.10/index.php You might try the forum there.
Looks like a real watercolour from the photo, but you could tell if you removed it from the frame. I like this one quite a lot. Wish I could...
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