You should definitely keep your eye out for older ones--a lot of tikis were bought directly from Maori in the late 1800s by UK tourists who took...
I think your "Elixir"bottle might be vintage and not antique--I bought one exactly like it in the late 1970s at a bottle museum in Australia....
Oh what a beauty! Your hei-tiki is carved from nephrite and looks to have a little age to it. That being said, it's quite crudely carved and most...
Oh it's big--lovely! I appreciate your art collection, but have more than enough collections of my own on the go, though.
Oh how lovely!! How large is it, Natasha, and how did you come by it? I have a few pieces of Nicaraguan folk art (but from the 1980s) that I...
These look like shoe clips to me--very popular int he 1980s with that whole Revival look. The "tongue" slips under the leather at the front of the...
mitten, I've just gone back and looked more carefully at the centred motif and I was wrong and you were right--my apologies. It IS a flower--I...
The flower design looks like it might be a pineapple... Waterford has a pineapple pattern that your lovely vase might be referencing.
Oh Susan!! What an incredible coincidence!! Too much of a coincidence given how very similar they are, right? Can't thank you enough for taking...
I do have a soft spot for Oiva Toikka's work. His work is really timeless (so many of the mid-century Finns and Scandinavians have designs that...
It's by Oiva Toika--from the Flora series, I believe. Lovely bowl!
Oh, they're so lovely! the fabric you chose is perfect. thanks so much for the update! definitely worth all the work you will have put into them.
I'm getting a calisthenics vibe from her--but the hoop thing is throwing me off (calisthenics used a lot of rods as part of the exercises, but I'm...
The medium looks like linocut to me. GREAT picture, by the way, and by an accomplished artist!
You could break the set up a little for eBay sales (and consign the rest). I feel the serving bowl (far left) and the conical bowls (far right)...
Tourmaline is a striated crystal--so the "threads" in the stone are a natural part of its formation. I agree with everyone else that the stones...
"der Ernte" is "the harvest" in German--so harvest moon, I'm thinking.
Given the lovely decorations on the cup, I would also go with the least harsh cleaning method first. I would try bicarbonate of soda which is also...
What a lovely shape! Well found.
Yes, I've never seen them with tubes inside, either. And to me, too, these are most definitely claret jugs. they have a long history of...
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