Lot 047 - Vintage Brass Ship's Porthole with Hinged Glass Window and Dog Ear Fasteners, 12" L x 2-3/4" H

Lot 047 - Vintage Brass Ship's Porthole with Hinged Glass Window and Dog Ear Fasteners, 12" L x 2-3/4" HVintage brass ship's porthole with a hinged glass window and two dog ear fasteners. The porthole frame features riveted construction with mounting holes around the perimeter and a side mounted hinge. The glass is intact. The brass shows heavy patina and oxidation throughout, and the glass shows hazing and surface scratching.

Here is a lovely antique ambrotype photograph of a young man in a top hat wearing a very large bowtie

Marked “Germany” on base

30" overall height

and other details of late 19th-century urban life

and signatures dated between 1875 and 1881

Looking through this book you will get a profound sense of the woman she was

The ring does not bare any other marks but is guaranteed to be sterling silver

The vase is in good condition with some signs of use and handling

in modern frame

The back of the head shows a vertical seam of gathered and folded hide stitched together along the centerline

as well as some significant wear on the back of the baby's neck where the head attaches to the body

and candy apples beneath a crescent moon sky