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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Brass "What's"?

« on: September 09, 2013, 08:05:11 pm »

We're down here in Humble just NE of Houston. We're on the only farm left in town. Barns full of ancient stuff and some of which left behind by Humble Oil & Refining when they owned the land. Have an old porcelean enameled sign that reads Humble Oil & Refining / Well # 27. Sadly though, somebody had folded it in half for another use I reckon.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Brass "What's"?

« on: September 09, 2013, 07:51:11 pm »

Are you in Texas by any chance ??Actually many items like these are hand decorated !! Middle East countries,,India, Sri Lanka, and others where there are few jobs use this type of item as their income !! Same as Africa has various types of carvings for tourists !!  They can buy the blank items and decorate them at home !! They do not make the entire vase !! These can be sold to tourists or sold to the person that exports them and there are many buyers for places like Pier 1 Imports !!  Even our small town has an import shop !!  Then again there is Wal-Mart !!

Is there anywhere else? Heck, it would take a lifetime just to get to the Texas border and then there may just be outer space past that. No oxygen to breathe or no manure to breathe.
 On the etchings, I reckon my job wasn't so bad after all. Ya'll (you all) have been great.   

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Brass "What's"?

« on: September 09, 2013, 06:21:16 pm »

These are just fine !! If they are too big with phones ect then the enlargement is blurry !! These work well and I am on dial up !!  Take a close up of the signature you found but still same size for posting !!

I just cancelled my dial up because the web resources required these days made me wait forever between sreen refreshes. The great thing about dial up though is the bad guys can't put critters on your machine as easy.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Brass "What's"?

« on: September 09, 2013, 06:15:55 pm »

Thank you both for your input on these. I am posting pics of the signatures of which either one does no match exactly. KC, when you say etched imports, do you mean that they are machine etched or hand etched? These have every indication of hand etching. If they are then wherever they came from must have a low economy and the people work for cheap. What am I saying, that's why we buy imports, DUH.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Brass "What's"?

« on: September 09, 2013, 02:04:54 pm »

Thank you mart for the IT support and the brass "thingys". I finally figured out the routine for uploading here (after uploading twice). I will take some pics of them out of the box and with a tape rule up beside one. We thought about vase but they seem too small to hold any flowers. They seem to have a signature on them and that has my curiosity up. On the uploading, is it best practice to upload the full size image or does the board prefer compressed like the ones just posted?

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Antique Questions Forum / Brass "What's"?

« on: September 09, 2013, 01:41:06 pm »

 Good afternoon to all, I found this little gem at a yard sale benefitting abused women and children. I paid $2.00

for it and am curious as to what it is! Does anybody have any ideas?