so, I'm off on some speculation: Irish porcelain, ca 1920's. The poppy is a common Irish wildflower, and in fact was used after WWI to...
I'm beginning to think English, 1930s?, just a guess. The decal history was invaluable and exactly where I wanted to go with this (had no idea...
I double checked but that was just a residual graphite smudge. No other marks anywhere. As far as the decal is concerned, the loupe showed only...
in the last leaf pic, you see the red-brown outline and in the inner 'hatched' areas of the same color ... seems like a decal... the rest might...
[ATTACH] that fits exactly. Winner there.
design: is it thistles and peonies?
This is not my baliwick, so I'm punting. Covered cheese dish, so far I'm pretty certain: [ATTACH] No cheese inside... still with me? Cauz...
True, but every financial corporation, internet service provider, and telecommunications phone company will be able to tell your descendants where...
another perspective: give them to the genealogists of the families. More valuable than gold, and they will do the courteous thing too. oh. and...
good question. "Under US Code 18 Section 1708, mail theft is defined as taking any piece of mail that is not your own for any purpose. A piece...
Ken Burns could not have made a tear jerker Civil War documentary that way... a la Sullivan Ballou letters.
That is the 'careful' thing to do, and very honorable, but even state privacy laws don't protect decedents ...e.g., if you are Elvis (and we know...
I have a vast over-simplification that might help -- b/c I am still trying to wrap my head around the same thing, e.g., why it is so hard to...
and if its a lemon, turn it to lemonade, b/c even forged money can have value now-- if it's old enough and there's a collector for it. I had no...
also not an expert. But, copying has always intrigued me, so I read a bit: if it is real, the star dates it circa 1774 ... and further reading...
So we have concensus: painted on Mars in a French mission with a hammer by a nobody there, in 1951. Mystery solved.
fits with the French article by Nadermann, so Mars would be the month, not the place ... doubt France had launch capabilities in 1951 that landed...
Found another L'etoile article written in French by Denise Nadermann on topic of Monet and Impressionism....
You have revealed my ignorance: I am a coffee drinker! Btw, Asian also fits the "SILVER" mark from what I could find, which seemed to be common...
15,000 Spanish pesetas? Francs? Common abbreviations were "Pt", "Pta", "Pts" and "Ptas", and that could be a Pt. or and F? Subject looks...
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