Tallone
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I went to a family run estate sale Friday morning. The owner of the house obviously loved to collect smalls as the house was full of hundreds of items. Most of it didn't look particularly valuable to me but I picked up the four items below:
The extent of my knowledge about these things is that if they are genuine they might be quite valuable and, therefore, there are lots of fakes produced. I don't know enough to distinguish the genuine article from a fake. I might have passed on them but the price was low enough ($20 for the group) to take a chance.
This snuff bottle looks old and I liked the fact that the inscription on the bottom was not in English. I know there is a member here who has done Chinese translations. I'm hoping he will stop by and be able to tell me what that inscription says.
I picked this watch out of a group of other watches because it seemed unusually heavy for a small watch. That suggested high quality to me but I have no idea how to determine if it is a real Rolex or a fake. It runs, by the way.
This piece of pottery looks very old to me but I have no idea how to tell just how old it might be. The slip of paper inside says it was acquired in Colorado in 1931. That is the main reason I bought it as I figured there might not have been many fakes produced back in those days. The white stripe appears to be adhesive residue from a piece of duct tape which somebody apparently stuck on it a long time ago (idiots!).
This is a piece of blackware pottery. It obviously isn't all that old as the inscription on the bottom dates it to 1991. I only bought because I know some of this type of pottery can be quite valuable and this piece had the maker's name on the bottom. I haven't been able to find anything about the maker.
I would be most appreciative if anybody can provide any additional info on these items.
The extent of my knowledge about these things is that if they are genuine they might be quite valuable and, therefore, there are lots of fakes produced. I don't know enough to distinguish the genuine article from a fake. I might have passed on them but the price was low enough ($20 for the group) to take a chance.
This snuff bottle looks old and I liked the fact that the inscription on the bottom was not in English. I know there is a member here who has done Chinese translations. I'm hoping he will stop by and be able to tell me what that inscription says.
I picked this watch out of a group of other watches because it seemed unusually heavy for a small watch. That suggested high quality to me but I have no idea how to determine if it is a real Rolex or a fake. It runs, by the way.
This piece of pottery looks very old to me but I have no idea how to tell just how old it might be. The slip of paper inside says it was acquired in Colorado in 1931. That is the main reason I bought it as I figured there might not have been many fakes produced back in those days. The white stripe appears to be adhesive residue from a piece of duct tape which somebody apparently stuck on it a long time ago (idiots!).
This is a piece of blackware pottery. It obviously isn't all that old as the inscription on the bottom dates it to 1991. I only bought because I know some of this type of pottery can be quite valuable and this piece had the maker's name on the bottom. I haven't been able to find anything about the maker.
I would be most appreciative if anybody can provide any additional info on these items.
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