Anyone know my Daddy? It's signed but whodunnit?

[evelyb30]

museum replica, but????

She's on the alert, whoever she is! The figure looks like a female gryphon and the dangle is a locket.  The serial number on the back says A 090 and the maker's mark looks like a cojoined W and H with a B Co.(mpany) under it.  I'm assuming it's a museum replica, be bedarned if I know whose.  The gryphon was probably sculpted when it was pretty cold out. 😄  Maybe dark too - got her headlights on!

[old.crows.nest]

She might be a Harpy?

[evelyb30]

Harpies have womens' heads on bird's bodies.  This has the back half of a lion.  

[old.crows.nest]

Ah! 

It was the b o o b i e s and the look of her that made me think of a Harpy.

[old.crows.nest]

Google says Sphinx.

Off to look more.

[old.crows.nest]

WHG Egyptian Revival  

[gauntlettgems]

Love it 

[flipping_treasures]

Well done OCN.

[dream*peddler]

In the Worthpoint ad, the seller is calling the figure a Sphinx, but did not identify the mark.  The Sphinx mark is different than the one shown in ev's post.

[old.crows.nest]

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@dream*peddler wrote:

In the Worthpoint ad, the seller is calling the figure a Sphinx, but did not identify the mark.  The Sphinx mark is different than the one shown in ev's post.

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Yup. As if they were a part of a group, each individually numbered. Had me chasing down Daughters of the Sphinx and Krewes last night.

[dream*peddler]

What's driving me crazy is I've had pieces with that mark before and knew what it was then.  There's something about the arrangement of the letters that's a little different.  I think they're out of order or something the way the DTR (Desert Rose Trading) mark is on silver jewelry.

[evelyb30]

 I see more Assyrian than Egyptian about her. Winged sphynx sounds like some Northern European's idea rather than an Egyptian one. Which makes sense.  She reminds me of a Victorian mystery clock, which would have a clock in the pendulum. 

I've seen that Worthpoint ad before.  No idea why I couldn't find it again.  I think the number means it was one of a limited run produced.  Seen that before on another piece but don't ask me where!  

[old.crows.nest]

I see what you mean about the clock.

[old.crows.nest]

Searching google for Limited Edition Brooches I found this similarly numbered Brooch. 

"1994 Museum of American Folk Art Jack Rabbit 3D Pin Bunny Brooch W/Enamel"

[evelyb30]

I know.   I have one of those too, and could never find more than what's on the pin.  The same manufacturer probably made both, but didn't leave any breadcrumbs.  Probably a jobber alas.