It's not often you can touch up a piece with a torch.
There's a price attached to the item scoutshouse is showing, so that's someone's idea of the value. It's the asking price, but that doesn't...
Souvenirs of an exhibition?
Are these all from that same book: Collection of Etchings of Notable Academy Pictures? These are copies, etched or engraved, of other people's...
From that close-up with the pin: aquatint is a possibility. I've just been looking at an aquatint and the texture is similar. Don't have a...
I take it, it didn't work. Worth a try though. Singing bowls (chokra bowls) do exist.
If you're sure it's metal, can you make it ring by rubbing the rim (like people do with wine glasses)?
I can't tell. If they are intaglio prints, I would look to mezzotint. Otherwise, some lithographic process would be my guess.
Enamels can be repaired. Losses can be replaced with acrylics.
Maybe resist dyed? The pattern applied with something like wax, and then the cloth dyed, leaving the pattern white?
The photos aren't sharp enough to tell what kind of print they might be. It will take a clear, crisp, very close-up photo for someone here to...
It looks nicely made. Maybe Oaxaca, Mexico?
Seeing the title page of the book would tell a lot, but I'm not finding anything other than Brad's link. That says the book is only 13 pages.
The frame could be ivory assembled from piano keys. The printed paper on the back is intended to make the item seem older, but likely has...
The inscription makes it sound like it's a plate from a portfolio of pictures. As such, it could be rotogravure, which would at least be...
I think so long as you can tell a painting from a print, you'll be alright, but with advances in technology, that becomes increasingly difficult....
I had this small painting (assumed it was oil) that used impasto brushwork. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] But then I also had this painting, which I also...
That box is nice and looks to be in very good condition. I wonder if you could get any info from the Bata Shoe Museum?
Gila, I've think you've done a pretty good job of saying. I don't have any hard or fast rules. Oil and acrylic can be difficult to tell apart...
I suspected it was not Candlewick. Thanks for the ID!
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