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OMG, I love this!
It looks like a little girl wearing a St. Lucia candle crown all the way on the left, next to Krampus.
Some of the Monroe Salt Works pieces really don’t look like much, I agree. I found my first piece at the dump, otherwise it might not ever have come onto my radar.
– Kate
@Doublythumbs, thanks so much! I’ve never seen it in the wild (to my knowledge, anyway) but it’s definitely a good name to know. So understated, too! /s
Can you describe the technique used? It is a dimensional piece with watercolor over it and then finished with ink or sharpie? It’s hard to tell from the photograph.
Here’s a list from Findartinfo of painters with “Artur” in their names: http://www.findartinfo.com/english/Artists/Result?artistName=artur — Googling names with the right dates might get you somewhere.
Have you taken the piece out of the frame? Always tricky but you might learn something else about it.
Good luck!
All of the phrases and marks on the medallions could be Googled, and the marks on the backs could give you some clues about the age. If the research isn’t interesting to you, I think you can safely call it vintage, or even antique, and put a decent price on it. Even from my highly secular point of view, it’s a lovely object.
What kind of a shirt is it? I found a few shirts with similar, but not identical, patches. Here’s one example, which lends support to the authenticity of your shirt:
My Cottage, it was some high-end upholstery fabric that’s actually still in production, though this roll was at least 7 years old. I learn decorator fabric names from Elle Decor and other decorating magazines and spring when I find them.
Some names to know:
Lee Joffa
Scalamandre
Brunschwig & Fils
Cowtan & Tout
Clarence HouseI live near several enclaves of summer homes for the super-wealthy, and so fabric remnants and other decorator goodies fall into the benthic zone occasionally, where we bottom-feeders scoop them up. 🙂
I passed up a possible good cache today because I choked on the price and wasn’t sure it would maintain my attention; a whole binder of stamps (not at all my category, but wait –) from African countries (– makes it way more interesting!)between about 1920 and 1965. I’m still mulling it over. It was $85, so way above my flinch point. Anything under $40 and I would have made the gamble.
January got off to a super-rocky start this year, but I had a decent fabric sale this week ($500/three yards of high-end upholstery fabric) and a fun antique lightbulb sale ($50) and a few other sales to round out the week. I’ve also found a few pretty good paintings recently so I’m feeling a little bit better as we head into February.
I got sidelined a little bit this past week — I found a vintage Commodore 64 and a ton of games/accessories at a junk store and have spent too many hours tinkering with it and playing Donkey Kong with the family. Lost a bit of sourcing/listing time but sometimes you just have to give in to the hyperfocus.
The closest I’ve come to buying a cache was finding a gallon-sized bag of victorian-era buttons at a local thrift. I’ve been researching and selling buttons out of that bag for several years.
This isn’t exactly the same, but in December, an Etsy seller bought an item from me and told me to ship it to someone who had purchased the same thing from her in her Etsy shop because she’d sold it in her B&M shop and had forgotten to de-list it on Etsy. (Sorry, confusing!) My buyer asked (well, in point of fact, TOLD) me to take certain steps to make the item look like it came from her Etsy shop. I shipped the item as requested, but didn’t replace my return address or take any other great measures to make it look like it came from her Etsy shop (I didn’t include an invoice). I got good feedback, so I guess everyone was happy.
The worst part of the whole deal was that I sold the item on eBay for $20 (I’d had it listed for at least 2 years) and she’d gotten $60 for it on Etsy. (I checked via Flipper Tools.)
ΙΕΡΑ ΙΕΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΕ = HOLY HISTORY
ΚΑΙΝΗΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ = “New Testament”I’ve got to go do something else, but using Google Translate you should be able to do it! Super-fun!
