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Looks to me like a celadon glaze, maybe looking a bit yellower due to the clay. Is the flower design cut in or standing out? It looks from the photo as if it’s in relief; that might be a clue as to the potter, as (I think) most underglaze decoration in celadon is incised.
I was guessing from the slight lack of definition in the millefiori, but the colours are more subtle than the Chinese ones I’ve seen. It’s really unusual; maybe American?
I’ve got half an idea it’s Chinese. Pretty sure it’s 20th century, probably not Murano or French. The colours of the millefiori are unusual. Sell it as a wig stand for a merkin- it’s the right size!
Looks like a musket ball mould except that there doesn’t appear to be a casting hole. The edges appear to be bevelled, as if they’re designed to cut through something- the damage also looks like it’s been used to cut wire.
Could it have been used to remove the nadgers from small mammals?
Not exactly a bad buy, but amusing.
Went through the “art collection” of a charity warehouse on Saturday. The last picture I looked at was a lake-and-mountains scene. It looked like a print on canvas, but when I looked at the back there was a handwritten note signed and dated by the artist describing the location. Okay so it’s an oil, and looks good and it’s only £10, so I bought it and ‘phoned up a friend to check on the artist. He finds one painting and it sold for £3,300.
Get back home and check on the artist and find that he went to the Holy Land shortly before he painted the landscape and he is now the ‘Bob Ross’ of tacky religious paintings, available from his own website at prices from £150 upwards, along with T-shirts, tea trays and tchotchkes at very reasonable prices. For free you can upload a photo of yourself to his website and get it back with a transparent Jesus standing next to you.
That £3,300 was a real outlier.
I’ve sold scooters and motorised wheelchairs, but I’ve never heard of a “knee scooter”. Looked it up, and although they’re sold in the UK I’ve never seen one either in use or in a shop. Mobility shop near me has a handy supply of 3-ply cardboard boxes that the scooters are delivered in.
I see other resellers in thrift shops, easy to spot ‘cos they’re either looking at stuff in a certain way or they’re Nigerians with a huge pile of consumer electronics and toys. Don’t tend to have conversations with either group because they start looking a bit twitchy and scared when they notice me.
The local thrift shop have a reseller as a volunteer- it works well ‘cos they get overwhelmed with donations, he pays extra for things and does local deliveries of furniture, also he’s not interested in the kind of things I’m interested in 🙂
Just found this statement “Using a filler of high-zinc brass it is easy to make brazed joints in copper items. Traditionally, this was the filler used to finish cramped joints before hard solder became available. It takes skill to make the joint neatly.” from here.
(A wild guess) think it’s been brazed, so the yellow areas are brass. I’ve never seen one with such an unusual construction. The inside has the remains of tinning (as the copper would react with acidic food). Probably best not to clean it, as its value may lie in the construction.
Re provenance: I was given a cap badge of a leopard’s face on a sky-blue background, surrounded by a wreath. The provenance was that it was brought back from the Congo in the 1960s by a Polish ex-serviceman employed as an aircraft armourer by the CIA. There were a number of Poles recruited in the British Midlands who went to the Congo. Wild guess was that it was a Katanga cap badge- went to a Belgian collector, probably too cheaply!
Link to Flikr image This is the same ERDL camo pattern, on a US Marine Corps shirt (note cross-shaped mid-green areas).
Is that the back of the patch? There’s a shop near me that sells Vietnam-era patches, so I did (out of curiousity) do some checking up on patches some time back. There’s a big Vietnamese industry in making fake patches- apparently there’s a rare US reference book on them which acts as a guide for Vietnam makers.
