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  1. Nice! Very evocative of legendary ocean liners. The wood must be teak?
  2. (Sorry, I think the second link is not working. When you click, it links to wikipedia ‘War_Medal_1939’. That should be ‘War_Medal_1939-1945’ )
  3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Air_Patrol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Medal_1939–1945
  4. The George VI is not WW I. His father was on the throne for that. The medal gives his title as King of all Great Britain and Emperor of India, so it would date from before Indian independence. Bes...
  5. Sorry, keramikos, I do okay with a few languages, but they are all ones which use alphabets. In Beijing, say, I enjoy including beginner one-on-one classes taught by a local resident, but that mostly...
  6. I would bet photos of the base are upside down (for Google translate purposes), and the calligraphy is in an ‘artsy’ style.
  7. The character that looks like a rectangle bisected by a line down the middle (‘zhong’) means ‘middle’ or ‘centre’. For example, if the English signage named ‘XXX Middle Road’ or ‘YYY Shopping Centre...
  8. “I’m unsure what the large red area is at the top ??” It’s a completely separate element in the design, isn’t it? The stylized three-lobe shape evokes the leaves of a paulownia mon. (A ‘mon’ in J...
  9. When travel agencies were common (before we all started booking online), it wouldn’t be unusual to see a model airliner such as this, as part of the office’s decor/ marketing displays.
  10. Sorry, but it looks simply like it was made up, like one might for a stage prop for a play, or for someone’s costume, or just for fun. It wouldn’t fit with any tribe’s or other culture’s artefacts...
  11. The mark in red is a Qianlong seal mark, but I’m afraid the shape and decoration are not convincing. There seems to be more white ground in the pictorial section than one usually expects, and the ...
  12. That’s what I mean: inexpensive export porcelain painted in Canton. It’s a western shape: mug with a handle. ‘Canton’ is not a descriptor for valuable antique.
  13. Canton porcelain
  14. I think 1970s going by the colour and design of the upholstery fabric.
  15. You don't need to be concerned about any of that if it's not ivory. We can't see from this picture, but you can take a magnified look at the base and the top of the figure (if the material is exposed...
  16. Laws regarding elephant ivory are complicated: http://fitzgibbonlaw.com/understanding-ivory-law/
  17. The curving shape of the figure is meant to imply that it was carved from an ivory tusk, so the first thing to determine is whether it really is ivory. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/antiquesfyi/tips/damage...
  18. Its contents were probably hot before the stopper was put on, then the gaseous pressure inside dropped as it cooled to room temperature, creating a vacuum. You need to either drop atmospheric pres...
  19. Google for images of 'vintage cocktail shaker', and you'll see a similar shape in many examples.
  20. 'Bayern' = Bavaria, 'Bayer.' is short for 'Bayerische' = Bavarian Der Sattler = the saddler Bavarian State Organization Saddler, i.e., the equestrian leather goods supplier for the Bavarian stat...
  21. I am sorry to say that it is highly unlikely. Sapphire and ruby (corundum) have a hardness rating of 9 on the Mohs scale. Your photos show the edges of the facets on this stone seem to have many sma...
  22. Padley Parkin & Staniforth, according to this... http://www.925-1000.com/silverplate_P.html
  23. Clearly the style is Art Nouveau. If it were really of that period, that would be 1890-1910, but as said above it could easily b a fake antique. When people really did have inkwells on their desks...
  24. You have close-up pictures of the weave used in your blanket. You can compare to pictures of the twill weaving and twine weaving techniques that the Salish used... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa...
  25. Can you lift it up, and show us photos of any markings on its base? ;)
  26. "... did not exist in the Kangxi period."
  27. The fanciful mark is meant as an artemisia leaf. When the Ming dynasty (ethnically Han Chinese) was overthrown by the Qing (Manchu), there was an unsettled period when use of the Kangxi emperor's r...
  28. Oh, the round character in the middle of the chair back is 'shou' ('longevity').
  29. Google images for 'classical Chinese chairs'. You'll see photos from Christie's, Sotheby's, modern reproductions, etc. If you have a good eye, you will notice the real antiques are lithe and extre...
  30. The shoulder shape is similar to Guerlain's bottle for the perfumes Mitsouko and L'Heure Bleue, although the scrolls on your bottle are a bit more ornate.
  31. Do you need tongue depressors in your bathroom? ;)
  32. White gold
  33. For deadheading in the garden?
  34. Or maybe the hot coal inside heats the lid, and then the handled lid is used to warm the sleeping roll, like a bed warmer.
  35. You don't give any measurements, like many others asking "What could it be?", and of course that makes it harder when we can't tell whether the object's size makes sense (for example) on a kitchen cou...
  36. Steppes
  37. This base must have held something made of breakable material. The bowl or urn was supported on the cat's heads, but tapered down to a pointy bottom which fit inside the small ring.
  38. Well, during periods in European decorative arts (Renaissance, Egyptian revivals) when such figures were used by artists and craftsmen, they thought of them as sphinxes. http://www.kalpana.it/blogpi...
  39. Anyway, KatrinaKay, we could probably guess what would result in a flaw like this. Bottles are manufactured by blowing hot molten glass into steel molds, then cooled with sprays of water. The mold ...
  40. Sorry, I wasn't clear in what I said. In this bottle, the second photo seems to me to show the glass impression on the shoulder of the bottle says 'Pipsi', while another impression in the third phot...
  41. I meant to say impressed with the brand name multiple times.
  42. The glass is impressed with the brand name, some spelled correctly, some incorrectly.
  43. The figure is a sphinx - human, lion and sometimes winged.
  44. I'm guessing it once held a miniature bottle of Smirnoff vodka inside.
  45. https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2334/lots/365
  46. Scroll down to see pictures of the vase being discussed here... http://www.justanswer.com/antiques/5agt8-vase-pottery-mark-rw-inside-diamond-shaped.html It's very similar to yours, but the handles ...
  47. Smoky quartz cabochon?
  48. Eve's got luscious fruit and Adam's really packing nuts there.
  49. The word in the middle of the label 'in English' is 'shkatulka' = 'casket'. The first line says 'Vyatsky provinces' followed by an address in Kirov, so you know where your box comes from.
  50. The word in the middle of the label 'in English' is 'shkatulka' = 'casket'. The first line says 'Vyatsky provinces' followed by an address in Kirov, so you know where your box comes from.
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