Finding Interesting Items For Sale On Mercado Libre

[French jurist]

In a Naon auction (fancy auction house), I tried to buy this miniature painting back in december 2013.

The artist is a famous French miniaturist.

Now, the questions that needed an answer were:
- Who is depicted ?
- To guess the above, what are those medals ? (was tricky because they are not only French...) -> a clue = at least 1 of those foreign medals was given to very, very few French militaries (that helped a lot)

Inspector Clouseau found it out... But his modest income forced him to stop bidding (sold for 80.000 pesos + fees, I stopped way before lol). An italian watercolor sold for + 1.000.000 pesos in this auction (I was at the back of the room with all the Italian dealers, lasted for 20 minutes & that was quite funny. The other high bidder was on the phone)

http://www.naon.com/.../17539-006.html

 

[splattermatter]

Jerome' Bonaparte?

 

[steveinbsas]

I just received an email from the seller with the OCA tracking number for this 1940's "Oldham" lantern. The ML price plus shipping was just under $600 pesos.




I found a similar one in an antique shop in Belgrano in 2010 for $200 pesos, so there wasn't much difference in price (in dollars).

 

[French jurist]

Jerome' Bonaparte?

Nope (in fact this military is famous for people who know quite extensively about the Napoleonian world but in fact 99% of the French people likely don't know who he is), first clue, the medal on the left is

http://en.wikipedia....r_of_Max_Joseph

 

[French jurist]

Second clue : medal at bottom (one above is Légion d'Honneur of course but that's easy):

http://en.wikipedia....er_of_St._Henry

The only medal I could not identify for sure is the red one (a Russian order? really not sure)

 

[splattermatter]

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_commandeurs_de_la_L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur

 

[French jurist]

And the answer is (about 20/25 years older / same chin, same nose / the only one I found who got those two foreign medals)

http://fr.wikipedia...._Charles_Reille

 

[splattermatter]

i dunno about dat

 

[steveinbsas]

With so may "cat" avatars here, perhaps someone will like this lamp which was listed today:



http://articulo.merc...nce-cromado-_JM

 

[French jurist]

An "American desk" (that's how we call them in France, wonder the origin) to be auctionned tonight (likely a low reserve price: estimates they give often are above the reserve price)