I must admit that I have never tried to photograph glass, so I have no good tips, but I expect some others will have advice.
I'd be lucky to get £10 for it. The crown is probably a brand mark, like Crown Hotels. Value depends far more on where you are and who you are...
Modern digital cameras are wonders of science and manufacture but still the horrible picture often features all over the internet, from ebay...
Latest update, we have the lot list from the antique auctioneer. It will need a bit of refinement but there are around 70 general antique lots at...
Could be just that, a tompion. Spring would know. Await an authoritive anser.
If you took your pictures in natural light (and more of it, they'd be more likely to be in focus with clearer detail. You could aslo step back a...
Does the upper tray lift out revealing rules and protractors in the lower compartment. Is there a lower compartment at all?
Trip completed, a favourable reception for the books from a very competent chap at the saleroom, neither he nor I expected any high prices but...
I think some one of many amateur artists drew it and gave it to Mr Waller to sign, as you'd proffer an autograph book.
Not all that hard, a fingernail is usually harder or as hard. PoP is 2 on the Mohs scale, fingernail is 2 to 2.5. But the main thing is chalk...
I have been thinking pastels for a while. I have it in hand and it is not a chromo.
Thank you.
Plaster of Paris rather than chalk.
Not, I think, with the position of the subject relative to the back of the card.
Tomorrow I take all these and more to be looked at by a specialist book auctioneer, down in the Cotswolds. We have six 40 litre (call it 10...
It is painted on a a piece of card cut from a divided back postcard which dates it to after 1907. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
In my opinion it is an original watercolour. I tried to angle it to avoid reflections from the glass.
A late discovery from the hoard, it was so dirty and patchily tarnished that it looked as if it was worn off plating showing brass. It appeared to...
A better look at the 3 inch high watercolour portrait of the C.1900 actor Lewis Waller, which appears to be signed in ink, presumably autographed....
It does look more Indian than Japanese to me, but that's just a feeling too.
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