Plate #1 is Edwin M. Knowles fine china, date 1985. It has a photo of 2 ladies at the kitchen table talking and about to cook. It is samped with a Norman Rockwell Authenticated purple stamp. Also a ROckwell SOciety of America red "official" stamp. It is stapmed as plate # 14012B of the limited edition of "A Family's Full Measure"
Third issue in Rockewell American Dream. This is the first collector's plate series selected and approved by the Norman ROckwell Family Trust and granted its seal of endorsement and authentication. Limited edition to 150 firing days. Bradex no 84-R70-73.
The other plate is of a beautiful lady in a long white dress. It is plate # 6183D of the linited edition of "A Mother's Welcome" A fourth issue in "Rockewell American Dream:
Very old, hand made leather pouch. Leather fringe is stiff, looks like a blood stain under the flap, some beading missing, 95% of it intact though. Beads are white, blue, red and teal. There is a stain of some kind on the front under the flap. Looks like dried blood. In the bag was a piece of wood either in a natural form or carved into the shape of a shell, maybe used for eating? Written on it in an old fashioned cursive script and in pencil was "Found in an Indian grave 1851". Could be 1859, it's hard to read. I've tried to find a similar pattern but the closest I could come was Cheyenne and that was stretching it in trying to find a match. This bag was found in an old shed in lower Alabama with several other items from the late 1800's. It could very well be that the wooden piece is older than the bag, I have no way of knowing. I have only seen items of this quality in museums. I'd like an estimate and will sell to the highest offer.
I was told that this head is possibly an Akan terracotta head of the Twifo-Hemang confederacy,15" dia, 7 1/2" overall height, oval form face with tapering chin, thin rectangular mouth and nose, narrow eyes, circular hole in back of head,weathered, not mounted, bottom of neck unevenly broken, nose appears to have been repaired, if piece is 300-400 years old then it would be in pretty good shape considering it is terracotta. Was told that it is important tribal art by an individual. No real appraisal has been done. I have not found anyone who really knew.
