Are you sure it's porcelain? Looks like enamel on metal (copper?) to me.
Interestingly, I had a soup bowl apparently from the same decorator, but I guess no other mark to cover: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
You can see that the gold mark is covering another mark. That indicates a decorator company using blanks from someone else.
I can see that. So each blank page should have a colored illustration on the other side.
You might be able to fill it with epoxy.
I don't accept that. There's any number of 19th century (and earlier) books that don't have that problem. Unless it was peculiar to Warne & Co.,...
Very curious. Is the text contiguous? Does it flow smoothly past those blank pages, or are there obvious gaps?
Gordon of Khartoum Major General Charles George Gordon (1833-1885)
I expect it's very fragile. But it is cool.
"sniped" in this context means that someone else said what you wanted to say moments before you got the word in.
I know very little about firearms. It's just that flared stock that I associate with N. Africa. Others know more than I. Hopefully they'll show...
Buy a couple of those MCM lamps and you can take over the Kitsch thread.
Isn't that North African? Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia... like that.
The only thing that comes to mind is the mud men of Papua New Guinea, and that's not much of a connection even as a tourist piece.
@springfld.arsenal might have some ideas. I'm sure there is a market.
I always like these posts. Interesting that the face in the bannerman scroll was painted by a European. The Jesuits were a very powerful...
I had this vase that I was told (subsequent to the sale) was Harrach. [ATTACH] The color of the glass looks similar, as does the treatment of the...
Similar bases are used on glass made in Brazil. At one time the company was calling itself Murano, but I believe that changed due to pressure...
redundant post It will be very expensive to restore (unless you can do it yourself).
A propitious start.
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