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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 343244, member: 2844&quot;]£25 is fine for this lot. I don&#039;t know what the prices in the UK are like, but I&#039;m sure if she wants to sell she&#039;ll make some profit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those &#039;ossekop&#039; (ox head) corners can be seen on Makkum tiles, but they are pretty generic, not restricted to a single town. They were first seen in the second half of the 17th century, but this one is later, possibly nineteenth century.</p><p>The two ship tiles look 20th century. Is that damage on one of them, or just the remains of a price tag?</p><p>The top left one was once part of a tile tableau.</p><p>The owl one does not look Dutch at all, I think that is the non-Dutch one the auctioneer meant. Dutch circle tiles with that kind of corner motif were based on Italian tiles.</p><p>Here is a Dutch circle tile:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQvJ1TsudbIulY-X8Xea1izciP46flfiDVniLPdkxZ5vkY8D4O5&amp;sp=3dd03a46ab0ec5c0f6f982540eafb5ab&amp;anticache=750922" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When you see them in &#039;real life&#039;, could you take photos of the backs and give us the dimensions, including thickness?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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