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Antique Questions Forum / Re: hard to photograph this chinese box?!?!?! is it chinese?

« on: January 02, 2011, 01:17:04 am »

without the flash my camera couldn't capture the details was so frustrated. Will try to bring over a fish tank lamp and see if it'll work. 

 

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: type of wood used for this box?

« on: January 02, 2011, 01:13:42 am »

Thanks guys for all of your input-  newbie me didn't take pictures of the bottom and lo and behold its not marked like inside of this box... its plain!

 

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EBay Forum / Re: Feel bad about sniped bidder and need advice

« on: December 29, 2010, 09:54:14 pm »

Its dog eat dog world out there 


Personally if I wanted an item bad enough I would have put down plenty of cushion between the current amount and the max I am willing to go to. If I get snipped the last minute its my own fault that I didn't do this in the first place.


I'm a buyer like 99% of the time on ebay. Only few times in my whole time I've been a seller and the local pickup is such a hassle! Don't get me started with flakers on craigslist! So I totally understand the shipping issue- we when as sellers... lose alot money in the fees not the buyers.

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Antique Questions Forum / type of wood used for this box?

« on: December 29, 2010, 05:33:05 pm »

Can't figure out what wood was used for this box to help along with my research as well.


Flowers to me means it could have been a jewelry box instead of a game set box am I right?

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Antique Questions Forum / hard to photograph this chinese box?!?!?! is it chinese?

« on: December 29, 2010, 05:22:00 pm »

This is the most difficult item I have ever had to try to take pictures of though one of my favorites ever from dad's stuff.

I believe it was used to store game pieces as most boxes I've seen are game piece set or whatnot?


The design on the box is so beautiful however its difficult to show in a snapshot how it looks from different angles as its effect is quite cool play on its tones/colors from different POVs.






this is inside the box, I don't know how to read or figure out what it is saying

any idea what story is being shown on the box as well as what is this box's purpose?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: this a toy or a demonstration piece used by settlers?

« on: December 29, 2010, 05:04:14 pm »

regardless of what its called

salesman samples were the classical "magical" words that helped me look into similar stuff now working out a lead! (lol no pun indeed)


Thanks guys!

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Antique Questions Forum / this a toy or a demonstration piece used by settlers?

« on: December 29, 2010, 01:48:46 pm »

My father stated that it was a settlers demonstration piece to show indians how they washed clothes while moving west

IN MY OPINION its too heavy and settlers was always offloading heavy objects?!?! Those things are made out of metal (very very heavy for such little things!)

Please let me know what those things are called so I can start somewhere in the research of their value?

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Antique Questions Forum / artist signature help for Cheskin painting

« on: May 24, 2010, 10:56:42 am »

I thought I had the right artist Louis Cheskin... until I saw an Ebay auction and saw the signature on that auction "trees"  as it was not the same signature... is there another Louis Cheskin ? or was I using the wrong first name?

The ebay auction had the signature spelling out his entire first name but this painting only has L on it.


The painting which I'm trying to get more info for:

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Antique Questions Forum / interesting oil painting of old time wine flask

« on: May 24, 2010, 10:51:40 am »

Interesting find..

could not find any info on the signature "Range" or was I spelling it wrong

the painting has cracks and chips all over however I think its interesting subject to look at?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: babe ruth baseball bat ?

« on: January 24, 2010, 09:58:26 am »

Thank you guys! That sure helped.

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Antique Questions Forum / babe ruth baseball bat ?

« on: January 23, 2010, 11:57:26 am »

is this worth anything at all? its 34'' at the length I know babe ruth was 35-36 length

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Antique Questions Forum / need info on belgian rug maker- a website would help!

« on: January 06, 2010, 05:58:44 pm »

Have a been trying to locate some company as the rug I am researching has a tag on it that reads  "made in belgium 100% cotton" its a 8'6'' x 12' rug, however the maker wording on the tag is so rubbed out faded I'm not sure which letters its actually made out of but

the best thing I could figure out was __ A S H O A __ the first and the last letters is the ones I can't figure out- no way for me to read it I might even have misread the letters itself in the middle but have been searching and its hard to figure out as the rugs I have been looking at is like "persian" oriential etc I don't care about those stuff I only care about the company's background and information so I can make a good start on that research then figure out what I really have. Is it a common practice not to list a company that made the rug in listings?

any one know what I might be talking about? I even can't tell a difference between a machine-made and a hand-made rug even with pictures to show the difference. Hence more reason for me to do a research on this company.

Any idea?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: lime green fish bowl with stand/lamp combo value?

« on: January 02, 2010, 06:28:54 pm »

lol 

Still can't find something like this but did find other cool antique "terriarums" 

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: antique Quilt? 8'x7'

« on: January 02, 2010, 06:24:40 pm »

Wow, this is actually a fun history to Dresden pattern- and thanks you guys for the leads to rockymountain and the informative site on dresdens. This would keep me busy for days though more fun and less frustrating.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: lime green fish bowl with stand/lamp combo value?

« on: January 02, 2010, 02:24:20 pm »

it takes quite alot force to topple over the stand when its filled

the metal is actually super heavy. the glass vase itself is 12'' tall and the widest point is 14 1/2'' for the vase itself whereas the widest the (narrow) portion of the vase is 6'' wide


and the base itself the narrowest point is 13 1/4'' so its double wider than the vase itself for giving it great support.


that makes sense if that was what it was used for herps/reptiles as the vase top base is actually very flat to the touch so that might have been what was missing to the untrained eye.