Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge:
May 13, 2018
I’ve taken a fair number of odd pictures this months. I’m not sure what one might consider “oddball.”
As Alice might have said: “Curiouser and Curiouser!”
Matryoshka – Russian Wooden Nesting Dolls
I bought this set of dolls at a local craft show for what I thought was a song. Since then, having seen many others of these, I was right. These Russian nesting dolls are beautifully painted … and if I were to unpack them, there are eight of them inside her.
Atop the shelves in the living room.
In close communion with a particularly beautiful Navajo bowl.
Other Stuff
If Van Gogh lived here, he might have painted my sunflowers thusly.
Van Gogh One
Perhaps more Cezanne?
Another Van Gogh
Somebody impressionistic for sure.
Radiant sunflower by Olympus
Highly zoomorphic
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Your sunflowers are very artistic, I love them.
Leslie
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I copy only the best artists 🙂
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The photos are even better.
Leslie
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I love the Russian dolls. I have a set of Russian presidents inside each other beginning with Lenin that a colleague brought me from Russia
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I’ve seen those for sale on the internet. I almost bought a set, but I already have too much stuff. The one I have was actually painted by a local lady who does these for fun. She also does some beautiful knitting.
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Kind of the precursor to Ken.. ha.
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I think Ken is the precursor to Trump. Equally empty-headed.
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Is the Abe Lincoln doll an antique. Unusual..
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Those dolls are collector’s items. I don’t think they are officially antiques, but they are close enough. Maybe 50 years old? I used to have almost the entire set of them, but they sold very well when I was selling things. I just kept Abe and George as well as the Roosevelts and Churchills.
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Did they have all the presidents? In five years I will be an antique myself!
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Oops.. let me amend that statement. I just looked up the definition of antique and discovered something has to be 100 years old to be considered an antique! So, I’m off by about thirty years, not five.
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Actually, for most of us 75 years, but for dolls which don’t last as long, 50 years is antique. Many of mine are 70 or more years old. I was a serious collector for years.
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That’s what I always thought but Google insisted 100. I’m willing to agree with thee, however, as that was what I’d always heard as well.
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According to my dozens of antique books, most things, it’s 75 years. But it does depend on the item. Dolls, more like 30 or more because they disintegrate pretty fast. Keeping them from dying of age is actually difficult.
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This company made a complete set of all the presidents through LBJ and many movie stars, too. I have two John Waynes, a Jimmy Cagney and a Humphrey Bogart. They are surprisingly realistic, too. I used to have hundreds of historical figures. These aren’t considered dolls, but rather “figures.” They also made an entire set of first ladies, too.
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