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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Enamelled Smoking Set

« on: June 25, 2014, 06:51:43 am »

Okay Mart, thanks a lot for the help, will probably take it to a local antique dealer and see what he says about it too, will post what they tell me in the next few days.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Enamelled Smoking Set

« on: June 24, 2014, 05:03:41 am »

Appreciate the help. The other bird I mentioned is placed to the left of the Crane in the second image of my original post, after some research I found it at least bears a resemblance to Fenghuang which are apparently mythological birds that rule over other birds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenghuang).

I did a google image search for Fenghuang bird and a lot of the pictures seem at least similar to the other large bird. Not sure if any of this is helpful but it's interesting to know at least.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Enamelled Smoking Set

« on: June 23, 2014, 11:18:48 am »

Yeah I did research the crane as I always thought it was a Japanese symbol due to origami cranes being so commonplace, but apparently in Chinese culture it is a symbol if Immortality. I couldn't make out what the other bird was though, it has a pink body and legs similar to a Flamingo but it has the green and blue wings and head, with a red part on its chin. It also has a long flowing tail that looks peacock like but a different shape. Anybody know what the bird is or what it is if not a bird?

On another note my dad will be pretty smug, he said it was probably brass since I told him it was pretty heavy for a small set.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Enamelled Smoking Set

« on: June 22, 2014, 07:17:44 pm »

Yeah I never imagined it to be anything special, but it just seemed a pretty item and I wanted to know anything about it. I have edited the second post where I mentioned the initials. I put a red circle around the name and re-uploaded the image.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Enamelled Smoking Set

« on: June 22, 2014, 06:20:12 am »

Ahh okay I see, my bad. I have uploaded the pictures again a little scaled down and updated the links in the original post, so hopefully people can see them now.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Enamelled Smoking Set

« on: June 21, 2014, 07:40:15 pm »

Hmm, for me I see the three pictures that I uploaded in the original post, and then in my second post I added a fourth picture. Not sure why you wouldn't see them, Did I do something wrong in my post?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Enamelled Smoking Set

« on: June 21, 2014, 01:03:39 pm »

I had another look over the pieces and on the ash tray I noticed a name but it is hard to read it looks like MB but could be MG, it is to the lower right of the mark in the middle.

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Antique Questions Forum / Enamelled Smoking Set

« on: June 21, 2014, 06:52:04 am »

Hi my girlfriends mum has a smoking set she was given a while ago while working as a cleaner for an elderly couple. The smoking set is very pretty comes with a cigarette box, match box holder, ash tray and a small tray to fit it all. It feature various birds and flowers and I am fairly sure one of the birds is a crane. I am not 100% but I think it is Brass but it could be copper, and the marking on the bottom of some of the pieces just says "China". Any help identifying the maker or date of creation for this would be helped.