XVI 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1913 



Stained with Cahnt's Shinzle Stains. Rufus D. 

 Wood, Architect, Pittsbiogli, Pa. 

 Read what this Architect says about 

 his own house, which is stained with 



Cabot's Creosote Stains 



*' The shingles of the roof and second story are stained with 

 your brown stain and the plaster on the outside columns with 

 your white Waterproof Cement Stain. A number of the 

 shingled houses in my neighborhood have been stained with 

 creosote (?) stains manufactured by local concerns and their colors 

 are very muddy and disagreeable and do not seem to stand the 

 weather, while mine has retained the original nut-brown color 

 which I desired. (Signed) RUFUS D. WOOD. 



/ It pays to use a reliable, standard article with a reputation. 

 Cheap, kerosene-made stains waste both your money and labor. 

 You can get Cabot's Stains all over the country. 

 Send for free samples of stained wood. 



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 •who are interested in old furniture, silver, prints, 

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L. R. R. The enamelled plate to which 

 you refer is probahly a Siena plate, to 

 judge from the photograph. There is al- 

 most no such thing as a "market price" 

 on objets ci'art of the sort, so much de- 

 pending upon the circumstances of disposal 

 or acquisition. For instance, in 1861, the 

 South Kensington Museum paid £15 for 

 a very fine enamelled Siena plate repre- 

 senting St. Sebastian tied to a tree, while 

 a similar one, thirty years after, brought 

 some £1,000 at Christie's in London. 



M. M. The ring which you submit is a 

 copy of an Egyptian signet ring of about 

 the period of B.C. 1500. The "inscription" 

 is composed of copied hieroglyphics ar- 

 ranged without meaning, and thus further 

 indicative of the ring's worthlessness from 

 an archaeological point of view. Bogus 

 Egyptian antiques are very common, but 

 genuine Egyptian antiques, on the other 

 hand, are also fairly easy to find, and when 

 obtained from reliable sources cannot fail 

 to add interest to any collection of me- 

 mentos of past ages. 



J. A. S. The miniature about which you 

 enquire is of the latter part of the eigh- 

 teenth century. During this period there 

 were made in Battersea a great number of 

 such enamels, but being done on copper 

 they chipped very readily and usually are 

 found in somewhat elementary colors, with 

 flesh color wanting, a little red and white 

 taking its place. There are examples of 

 Battersea enamels in the collection of the 

 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 

 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and 

 elsewhere in America. 



D. H. The wax portrait in profile which 

 you wish to preserve should be framed in 

 a deep, close-fitting frame, edging the glass 

 all around with gold-beater's skin, for while 

 damp does not affect wax miniatures, dust 

 invariably ruins them. It is worth noting 

 here that there has been a revival of the 

 art of portrait miniatures in wax in Eng- 

 land, examples of such work by contem- 

 porary wax artists having been shown at 

 the Royal Academy in London quite re- 

 cently. 



R. L. Because the colors of the illumin- 

 ated parchment missal page of which you 

 speak are brilliant, it is no indication of its 

 being a bogus specimen. The finest ex- 

 amples of the illuminator's art retain their 

 brilliance of color both by reason of the 

 excellence of the pigments used by the early 

 scribes and by reason of the fact that such 

 illuminations have generally been kept 

 from over-exposure in closed volumes. A 

 study of styles will help the amateur to 

 detect bogus examples of illuminated work. 

 American museums and the libraries in 

 nearly all our large cities possess speci- 

 mens of the illuminator's work for first- 

 hand study. 



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