This is my only acquisition for the year so far...
The Hidden Blade B1 - the second best B1 on the title, but I doubt that I'll come across the other one...
I'd mentioned to Ari on his Seattle stop that I'd been spending a good bit time at thrift stores recently and I came across this a couple of days ago... Any help on this from anyone?... Pub sign? It has one hanging hook attached (the other has been ripped out) and is unpainted wood on the reverse. The GRE was in existence from 1860-1922 and the Liverpool station was built in 1875, so that helps give a time frame if real.
I can't think of a reason that anyone would go to the trouble of painting a fake this large (54" x 16" at it's tallest point)
Also, found this piece of Venetian (Murano) glass... That I knew I was going to purchase long before I found that it was signed by Luigi Onesto and still stickered from both the Vetreria Artistica Oball and the Vetro Artistico Murano. It's worth significantly more than the $8 paid... (only semi-comparable (lesser condition and color combination) on eBay is listed at a $250 asking...
This is submerged glass and is very heavy. Solid layers of color are fused under an overall clear layer. The red is overlaid with a blue layer on one side and a lighter yellow layer, which is not really showing up well in the pic, on the other.
