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Yeah, but the other dealers have high-priced junk! Not kidding- one had a bronze death mask of a well-known German leader. The one who shot himself.
I shared a table at an antiques fair on Sunday, and sold just enough to cover my share of the fee (£17.50) The fair was held in a college sports hall- we got put in some kind of ball court only accessible by steep steps. The out-of-the-way location and the cold and wet weather kept a lot of people away, so we spent at least four of the eight hours of the fair eating, drinking coffee and walking round the other stalls. It was knackering.
@christiner Is that a carved-wood frame? Sometimes the frame is worth more than the art it contains.
Also the 25 dollars they’re asking for those white trainers with the splashback stains.
@retro-treasures-wv Maybe there’s money to be made in becoming a pure finder. There was a tannery in Devon that used it, but they seem to have changed over to oak bark.
Leicester’s libraries are preparing to offer people a Warm Welcome as the cost of living crisis hits this winter. All 16 of Leicester’s libraries will be acting as ‘warm spaces’ where people are welcome to gather and spend time in the warm without having to put their heating on at home
Someone commenting on YouTube had checked up the German data sheet for Evaporust. According to them the main ingredients were a) diammonium polyphosphonate and b) sodium oleum sulphonate. The first is the chelating agent and the second is a surfactant (soap).
Looks as if these are the ingredients in a) yeast nutrient for winemaking, and b) shampoo.
The teeth are wrong. In photos, Ethel Waters has a gap between the two upper front incisors, and only her upper teeth are visible when she smiles. However it looks as if the teeth in this photo have been redrawn- they look flat.
Seems like the advice on Curtis Jeré pieces is not to try any restoration.
You could use phosphoric acid or a proprietary rust-remover like Jenolite, and paint it on to the exposed wires using small amounts and a fine brush. Probably best to sell them untouched, and let the buyer sort out the conservation process. I’d be wary of getting any rust-remover near the edges of the enamel.
That pair of Vans brought back a childhood memory. We had to have white canvas rubber-soled shoes for school games. To keep them white we had to use ‘blanco’ which (I’ve just found out) was liquid china clay. So basically I spent part of my childhood running around with a pair of pottery clogs on my feet.
I think the design’s been done by laying down a black transfer of a hand-drawn pattern, drawn as a repeating pattern. There’s subtle differences in otherwise identical faces. Then it’s fired and then overpainted in colour and fired again. Looks 1980s, but even zooming in on the design didn’t produce any hits.
@idahoarder You’ve forgot the link.
The painting above the fireplace in the last photo of the Coastal Grandpa article. It looked to me like something from the British artists Rex Whistler or Tristam Hillier of the 1930s to 1950s, so I checked it using Google Lens. There must be hundreds of paintings, all with the same theme- ruined arch under lowering sky- going way back into the early 18th century. Guess it’s a classical meme!
