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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Stone Carved Bird and Floral Display Sculpture. Anyone Seen This Before?

« on: April 04, 2012, 09:12:06 pm »

It looks like alabaster to me. I know alot of alabaster comes from Italy. I have no clue what the stand is made of. Good Luck!!!!!

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Smilie Napper - Help on what this is?

« on: March 30, 2012, 03:13:27 pm »

I didn't look at the patent. Just saw that desciption and looked at your pictures and figured that has to be what it is. Did you ever try a tennis ball in it?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Smilie Napper - Help on what this is?

« on: March 30, 2012, 02:34:02 pm »

I looked it up and apparently its a tennis ball nap restorer. So basically its to fluff tennis balls.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Need Help With Pressed Glass Pattern

« on: March 30, 2012, 01:55:09 pm »

I searched and searched using hobstar and shell and was getting pretty frustrated because I couldn't find it or really anything close. Today I was searching for flower pattern cut glass and sure enough up pops a picture of a smaller but identical pattern hobstar and shell pattern bowl. The ad I found didn't say who made it just it appraised for $100-$150 so they were asking $125.

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Antique Questions Forum / Need Help With Pressed Glass Pattern

« on: March 27, 2012, 01:37:14 pm »

I've been looking at alot of pressed glass and haven't been getting anywhere. It measures just under 11" wide and 3.5" tall. I was hoping someone would recognize this pattern or be able to point me in the right direction. Age? Maker or country of origin?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Help with Female Native American Statue

« on: March 27, 2012, 12:13:37 pm »

I did try looking this up when first posted. I thought it said RL Weffler II I couldn't find any artist by that name.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Need Help Identifying Old Bronze Figure

« on: March 27, 2012, 11:56:08 am »

I saw something similar last night. It was painted bronze from Austria. Type painted bronze Austria in google image search. Good luck!

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Need Help Identifying Old Bronze Figure

« on: March 19, 2012, 03:45:32 pm »

How long is the ivory thing in the cart? I think it might actually be a tooth and I guess it was made to look like elephant ivory? being pulled in a cart. Tiger tooth?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Wooden mask from what country and year ?

« on: March 19, 2012, 02:58:58 pm »

The materials look old but you would really need an expert to look at it to make sure its not just made from older materials.

http://masks.novica.com/ Masked offered for sale today from around the world.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Wooden mask from what country and year ?

« on: March 19, 2012, 11:59:02 am »

I'm curious how old the beads are too but I would imagine alot of materials are might get recycled to make masks and other decorative things. The rope is made of Jute which is a plant fiber that could be found in alot of places around the world. A coastal city or town would have alot of access to old ropes made of jute. The jute rope was her first clue for the ivory coast since it was used alot there.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Miniature Amethyst Ball and Claw Bottle

« on: March 19, 2012, 11:18:12 am »

I have sold a few ball and claw bottles this size but they were red. The small ones like the one have are all considered reproductions. I will have to search back through my pictures but I dont remember mine saying made in. Where does it say it was made in? I think I only got about $5 a piece for them.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Wooden mask from what country and year ?

« on: March 19, 2012, 11:01:10 am »

My wife collects mask from all over the world. She said it most closely resembles one of her masks from the Ivory Coast. She said the base is probably wood cut from a large hollowed out knot in a tree.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Vintage Tonka Semi Truck w. Advertising - value?

« on: March 17, 2012, 09:13:06 am »

Thats a neat truck. Most likely this was customized by an employee of Blue Flame Propane or a friend or family member of an employee. If this was produced by Tonka they would of easily been able to produce a new part for the trailers wheels and not just cut apart another truck to use by parts. It probably doesn't have much value.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Is this plate really 19th century?

« on: March 16, 2012, 09:55:17 am »

I was wondering that too but then I visited their site again.

"Our goal is to provide you with the opportunity to purchase quality period American antiques, with a special focus on the 19th Century c.1800-1899"

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Is this plate really 19th century?

« on: March 15, 2012, 08:18:20 pm »

" Not many in the 1800`s were meant to  hang on the wall !! "

Exactly what I was thinking but then I found that ad. So I figured I better check here before I put them in a yard sale. Thanks again Mart!!