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klassylady25
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« on: September 22, 2006, 10:18:56 PM » |
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What is on the mantle? I see a book but darned if I know what the round thing is. This picture appears to be the young lads confirmation day.
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Kenny
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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2006, 10:28:52 PM » |
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Wow, tough one. My wife and I both looked at it and she said it looks like a sculpture. Could be an abstract piece of some sort? I honestly don't know. Let's home someone else will recognize it.
Kenny
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Peter_AUS
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« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2006, 12:33:01 AM » |
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Could he be standing on a Stair Case, or around the top of an atrium and that is something dangling behind. Looking at the individual channels, didn't enlighten anything more than that to me. Certainly a difficult one.
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Peter
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paula
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« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2006, 05:23:54 AM » |
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It looks like a pendulum of some sort. I think it's too low to be a mantle but I don't know what else it could be. Boy, you take on the real tough ones!
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« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2006, 12:57:45 PM » |
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Hi Candy
This may be far-fetched, but because of the obvious age of the photo, I'm wondering if the boy is standing beside a fuel-fired heater and the circular area is an opening to a chimney. I can barely discern what appears to be a large round tube behind the circle, which could be a metal chimney. It puts me in mind of an old kerosene heater we used to have, although all the chimney and flue parts were hidden on ours. We had a port into which we'd drop a match to light the kerosene at the bottom of the heater and that's what I think of when I look at the circle within a circle. Anyway, for what it's worth…
GG
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Dave
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« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2006, 03:10:51 PM » |
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Whatever it is, it's old and weird. The looping part of the object looks like a goose neck. Looking closely where the loop meets the flat top of the box-like object, it looks like a bird's face is carved there. Just my two cents. Not scientifically based on anything other than my own scattered thoughts.
Either way, I wouldn't worry about that too much. I think you have a big enough challenge with the boy in the picture.
Dave
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klassylady25
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« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2006, 03:35:21 PM » |
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Oh my Dave have you been nipping the apple cider again!! LOL I loved it and yes, the boy is the main object and am working on him but wouldn't it be wonderful to know... like going to the Antique Road Show!
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klassylady25
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« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2006, 10:22:20 PM » |
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He's going home! Thank you all for your help!
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Kenny
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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2006, 10:37:58 PM » |
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The amount of damage that picture had is incredible. You did an amazing job in bringing it back  Kenny |
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« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2006, 02:35:04 AM » |
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Congratulations! A nice job on a very difficult subject.
Max
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Wisdom is having a well considered opinion .... and being smart enough to keep it to yourself! MJS
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« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2006, 07:54:54 AM » |
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Excellent work. |
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