Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who responded - I am now prepared for the Trivial
> Pursuit tournament. :-) Seriously, I really appreciate the responses,
> some of which were pretty amazing, but unfortunately I don't think
> anyone hit it. I have two candle sticks, which are constructed of small
> Kutani hand-painted vases set on ormolu bases with ormolu candle holders
> in the neck. Each of the candle holders is inscribed with a date,
> suggesting that these were for presentation - one is 11 Februar, 1886,
> the other 11 Februar, 1868. I am selling them separately on Ebay - the
> auction already closed on the 1886. Now the obvious solution to this
> puzzle is that these are indeed a pair, and some idiot reversed the 8
> and the 6, and they are either both dated 11 Februar, 1886 or 1868. OR -
> there is some cosmic significance to the 11 Februar date. Given the
> weird things people have come up with, I'm now leaning very hard toward
> the mistake theory.
>
> And why didn't I offer them as a pair? Simple, SWMO fed them to me for
> posting one at a time. :-)
>
> B. D.
>
My guess is that they are German or from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
("Februar"
not "Fevrier" so unlikely to be French). Any marks on the base or elsewhere?
Where are they on Eb** I don't want to buy, I am just interested to see what
they look like. No, honestly...
Peter Dzwig