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Mystery "Saturn" Bronze Deco/Machine-Age Bookends - Booksin Books
2 months ago
Need help identifying these DECO (!) Roycroft bookends - Booksin Books
4 months ago
Question about my Villeroy & Boch Mettlach Art Nouveau Vase - Art Nouveauin Art Nouveau
6 months ago
My Favorite B & H lamp - Lampsin Lamps
11 months ago
My Gorgeous Art Nouveau "Mystery" Vase - Art Potteryin Art Pottery
12 months ago

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  1. @Stillwater I'll probably leave them as they are.....but I happen to like bronze/brass way more than silver/nickel, and IF there was some simple way to strip off that (partially worn) finish I'd do...
  2. You guys could be right about the original finish, but I just happen to love the look of bronze/brass and think these would look even better that way (simply my personal preference). @RussTenale: ...
  3. Hi Bellin68, Thanks, but it doesn't "look" like the same artist if you know what I mean (style is too different, and it's mostly ceramics). Please let me know if you have any other "possibles"? B...
  4. Thank you kindly, Stef. I just emailed Paul, and hope he'll be able to either enlighten me himself or provide contact info for another source.
  5. Thanks for all your comments- it's nice to hear that other collectors share the same appreciation for this highly uncommon Roycroft design! I think at the time they WEREN'T appreciated because they...
  6. Thanks for the excellent advice Cogito- I just printed out their email and will save it! I'd love to know who designed it too. What first caught my attention is that the "tree branches" at the top ...
  7. Thanks! It's actually even much nicer in person than it looks on the photos (which I copied from the auction listing). Really amazing that this looks as new as the day it was made 106 years later....
  8. Thanks, I consider myself very fortunate to own it (as will my daughter when I kick the bucket one day...; - )
  9. I just received the following reply from the V/B museum in Germany: Dear Sir, Thank you for writing and your interest in Villeroy & Boch and its historical products. The vase that you bough...
  10. Thank you both (for that reassuring thought, and appreciative comment). I was just a bit worried that the bottom of the vase had no obvious wear because they frequently mention that on the "Antiques ...
  11. Thanks so much for your reply. I too have a feeling that it's original vintage 1906, but there are SO many scam artists and forgers these days that I'd like to be 100% "certain" if possible. I just ...
  12. Thank you kindly for that tip, Johann! I googled "the Empire Lamp Co. of Chicago" and saw a number of similar designs. The reason I think the B & H base is bronze (except for the foot, which is dif...
  13. Thanks! It's really the focal point of our living room when lit- just amazing with a soft yellow glow. It weighs a ton too! We were very (very!) lucky to have won it, and for a reasonable price (...
  14. Scott, I am a SERIOUS early aviation collector, and would be VERY interested in hearing what you have! If you like, you can email me at: member111049@yahoo.com I have TONS of pre-1914 cards and...
  15. My pleasure Scott- that just happens to be MY area of expertise (been collecting pioneer-era aviation for 35 years!). Most folks have trouble distinguishing various types of biplanes and often assu...
  16. Unfortunately no other marks on the base....just some age-appropriate "scuffing" from a century of being displayed on various shelves.
  17. Thank you kindly for that informed opinion- it corroborates what the seller told me about it most likely being "Bohemian" (and most certainly European); and I never even considered that the vase and ...
  18. Hi Scott, This is a (Glenn) Curtiss pusher biplane and not a Wright flyer. I have several real photo postcards of Wright pilot Walter Brookins flying at Atlantic City in 1910 (where he set a new ...
  19. Well, I wouldn't want to sell it anyway- but it would certainly be nice to know who made it, and I'm hoping that someone on here will have an idea. How could somebody make something SO beautiful and...
  20. Thanks, Scott- that's exactly what I though when I first laid eyes on it. Kinda frustrating that the maker didn't sign it because I'd love to see what else he or she designed!
  21. P.S. Being that we're "newbies" when it comes to this area of collecting, we're ignorant about value and probably paid "too much" for it ($350); but like I said, we simply "had" to have it (it was ...
  22. Thank you kindly- my wife and I are absolutely nuts about it! This is actually the FIRST piece of "art pottery" that we've ever bought (we collect other things such as deco or nouveau bookends and l...
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Ferdinand von Poschinger (Buchenau) Cabochon & Silver Overlay Vase Early Aviation RPPC of Wright's Flyer c. 1910

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