Woohoo! ~Cheryl
After being caught up in the Christmas mail mess, my package of well-packed treasures arrived today - what fun poking through it all! All sorts...
I think you're right too, Don - and with Susan, probably from 'Oliver Twist'... http://www.silentmoviecrazy.com/olivertwist1922-coogan.jpg ~Cheryl
The first one is Mokanna, symbol of the Masonic 'Grotto' (M.O.V.P.E.R. - Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm). Wasn't...
Hunh - kind of odd pieces, would guess maybe 1950s-60s Korean, if intended for the American market, should have been marked as to fineness, but...
Geez - so old that I can remember that awful mural paneling from the '60s... ~Cheryl
Chain-strung beads are usually original, unlikely to be restrung on chain, the findings are typical mid 20th century, as are the beads, while the...
Looks Tibetan or Nepalese and fairly recent... ~Cheryl
Look to me like mid 20th century glass nugget beads, probably German... ~Cheryl
Used to sell exotic leathers in the '80s, with that distinctive pebbly texture and the deep graining, it's elephant - tough stuff. We had to have...
Very nice, but guilloche enamel rather than cloisonne, the brass ones most likely had leather covering the body... ~Cheryl
Elephant. ~Cheryl
There is a look of profound and resigned devastation on her face - sad, but compelling... ~Cheryl
Believe that it would be very difficult to date a painting by commercial stretchers, other than an earliest date possible, I still have several...
Suspect Anco would be surprised to know that they went out of business, I started using Anco Bilt stretchers as a teenager in the '70s, and when I...
'STREET' seems more likely... ~Cheryl
The beads are commonly called peacock eyes, but that's debateable, a peacock eye really should be green and blue - the dot is a silver foil...
I'm stickin' with Italian - not able to check since I don't own the book, but pretty sure that form, with the leaf feet, appears in Pina's book on...
It looks to me like a Murano/Venetian cornucopia vase - Seguso, maybe... ~Cheryl
They look like carved celluloid to me, probably 1920s-30s, I had a similar strand several years ago, but it had a celluloid clasp and no black...
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