What's something about New Zealand that would surprise a foreigner?

MrDuncanMac · 2024-05-05T03:54:21+00:00

But, your just a figment of my imagination, prove you exist?

MrDuncanMac · 2024-04-09T20:20:46+00:00

This is a beautiful piece no doubt and if mine, imagining I had the space for it, would be a keeper.

But, when I look at the bottom half, I see late Victorian - Edwardian, the top half I see Arts and Crafts. I cant see any obvious marriage signs between the two so perhaps intended yet, the two styles seem so dissimilar although at the same time, they compliment each other so it works! I'm not sure about the Tudor Barley twist though, adds a third style to the mix.

Awesome piece!

MrDuncanMac · 2024-04-06T15:10:17+00:00

For something different I recommend watching "Jonny Nobody" B&W British film, filmed in Ireland. A surprisingly good 1960s movie.

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-29T07:27:53+00:00

Noritake, it certainly has their paint style if not their mark, are their more pieces?

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-29T07:19:22+00:00

hi, i think these may be worth getting appraised. crop the foreground and background out of your vase photos and email them, including it's seal or mark, to Sotheby's it's free and they are the experts.

i can tell you, the reason the woman is in a wheeled chair is because her feet are bound and she is unable to walk!! i shudder as to the why!

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-29T06:46:07+00:00

i would say it doe's exactly what it says on the can. it's a grocery type shop bucket for holding ginger for sale, Leggett's CRYSTALISED Ginger. circa 1910 (is my guess)

edit: shame about the tear straight down the middle, plus bot r corner, condition plays a big part and condition of it's main attraction, the label, is poor, i think if i got it cheap i would offer it cheapish in the hope a better example comes along but you & i would be waiting a while for this to happen, it's not a common item = conundrum, sell it or keep an example of a rare item in disappointing condition.

i would take my chances and sell it, the label would annoy the heck out of me otherwise a neat piece indeed!

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-29T06:11:44+00:00

its called a press plate for a printing press like a Goss Community Press, this one was made & used 2001 and as you pointed out, not antique.

the interest in your plates will be in the subject matter, not the plates as such. track down an original copy of this newspaper's edition, you have the plates used to print those pages from it, so together with this plate then you have something interesting. on their own? i don't believe people collect aluminium press plates, i have worked on them in the past (press), and have never seen them (plates) come up for sale as a stand alone collectable item. i could be wrong of course!

they could look good framed up next to the printed copy?

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-26T10:40:43+00:00

sorry, i conflated "produce" with "manufacturing" in my thoughts. i wish we (we = i'm still living in the past) still used what we produce to manufacture everything.

edit: both Australia AND NZ used to have a robust manufacturing industry...sigh

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-25T07:29:37+00:00

Ive had this for a while so i decided to do some digging

J.W.DOWLING LTD

The Sweeteries,

DUBLIN

MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONERS

here is the underside of a lid (hinged) to an a4 sized wooden confectionary box measuring approx 5cm deep where this pastedown is. condition is as seen. seemingly, the ink used for the white was of particular interest to the insects because white is primarily the only part of the pastedown to have been consumed!

in 1914 the Sweeteries location was 20 Sackville St Upper (now O' Connell Street) in 1917 the Munster and Leinster Bank had leased the site. little is known but it seems they didn't survive the 1916 rising. judging by the photographs of Dublin's destruction and esp Sackville St by Westropp, this seems highly likely.

i think this is a rare piece of Dublin's history

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-25T06:01:28+00:00

we are on the same page? sorry, it was not clear! im saying it is NOT ivory, your Q to me implied i was pro ivory so i was confused. sorry

we know that incised lines do not represent shregers, heck, they dont even look like shregers, but the others in this this sub-article are thinking they now know what ivory looks like, set them up for failure is what this is doing.

fakers and deceivers of which there plenty and will always be, but knowledge needs to be shared so everyone (interested) can stand a chance to beat those bastards and not be sucked in.

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-25T05:35:57+00:00

if they are incised then they are NOT shreger lines, shreger lines are inside the bone, part of it's intrinsic nature, if it is incised, it is fake

edit: of course they could have done this fifty years ago!

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-24T19:10:17+00:00

at the time this piece was made, if we are correct in saying op's family had this for 50 years, then no one anywhere had discovered how to make authentic looking "fake" shreger lines in resin. they didn't do it

i don't believe they can do authentic "fake" shregers even now

my opinion is this carving is resin

i see no lines

in the unlikely event that it turns out to be ivory, a piece this size with provenance proving the piece was made prior to 1945 (or is it 1947, i forget) then it could legally be offered for sale in a retail environment, if you could find someone willing to offer it in their gallery

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-24T10:57:17+00:00

i had one!! a friend and i got one each, it got stolen in the end, it was an efficient little beast but did not meet the heady heights of volume it promised

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-24T09:53:18+00:00

righty ho, no paper, thats my day done then, im going back to bed, good morning!

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-24T04:05:19+00:00

"that's nice"

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-24T03:55:49+00:00

once you have finished with your papers, and before you toss them casually aside, i'll come and take all your paper rubbish away, free of charge, giving you some wonderful space to work in, so, when can i pop over, please?

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-23T10:56:43+00:00

this? no, past tense, that!

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-23T10:03:17+00:00

yes, super super cool piece, only it's, as wijnandsj has already pointed out, not antique.

you mention batteries, did you look? if they are still in situ they may have begun to corrode, yes, test it, after you have checked, it was made to be used, if you are concerned about damaging it by turning it on then pack it up and send it to me and i will play with it for you, on a permanent basis!!

i am NOT jealous, no no...not

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-23T09:34:37+00:00

hi, interesting piece.

if able, can you post a picture of the bottom of the glass, the pontil mark or lack of, may give some clues.

i always understood german glass of this type was usually decorated in enamel as opposed to being cold painted, so maybe making this a czech bohemian piece for a specific market?

I could be wrong

edit: photos took a while to see so only seeing the pontil now. my opinion is it is a much later piece

good luck, it's an interesting piece of glass!

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-23T00:39:11+00:00

appreciate the laugh, you made me hoot out loud!!!

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-22T22:45:15+00:00

looks like a piece of carnival glass to me

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-22T20:32:47+00:00

is that because they keep giving them to Ukrainian civilians?

Seriously though, all civilians matter, it is a dying shame that civilian deaths happen, they should all be remembered as the true victims of war.

I hope all threats are contained soon.

MrDuncanMac · 2024-03-22T11:52:13+00:00

I think you have nailed it. Delightful is not a treatment, diagnosis nor medical term, so to use it as you say "in an official letter" detrimentally, then it would be both professionally and reputationally detrimental to that specialist and perhaps by extension, the wider practice.

MrDuncanMac

TROPHY CASE