'Russia' is a post Soviet era usage, if the box were older it would say USSR or in Cyrillic 'CCCP'
Virtually any time in the 19th C. The way the brass and steel are blended in shape is pretty typical. I have had other drawing sets where some...
Cold painted spelter is unusual, and the colour underneath looks more like bronze. Possibly Austrian.
[ATTACH] Still pretty short on contrast
Given rhe shape, knopped stem and turned foot, C.1800, possibly,
THe picture smacks of the pre-Raphaelite school.
I suggest taking it outside for better pictures and remove the white tag as it can confuse centre weighted metering into underexposure.
And sorry about my pics no camera just use the camera on my tablet, Take the pictures outside or in direct light. Cameras in tablets are pretty...
150 pounds sounds a bit light for a 9 foot long 2 1/2 inch bore cannon. BWIK.
British usage is carat for gold and diamonds. Confusion is improbable.
Not that jewellery if it is marked 10K, that carat is used in the US only. UK equivalent would have a proper hallmark if sold by the V&A
You know that awkward time when the fart turns out not to be entirely gaseous? You've sharted.
It is 1925, lower case gothic K. It's also a far more likely time for that type of gold cufflink. It has nothing to do with Cartier, they would...
Could you do some better pictures, and when posting select full image. Meanwhile, you can edit your first post to select full image.
https://ukiyo-e.org/ should crack it for you. The signature is the red block.
I could read it if it was larger and with better contrast. The only bit I can read says Master Drawings abroad page 333
Bill Ellis.
I am pretty sure it would have used methelated spirits, possibly in some kind of wadding, or benzine.
They do appear to be fake marks. The king's head mark is a real caricature. I would not be surprised to find it was coin sillver. It was not...
The Hindenberg had a very carefully construced and controlled smoking room, in order to ensure the passengers did not sneak a crafty smoke...
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