Military Medals, Painting, and Femur Bone

[silverdollarbill]

Hey everyone,

I decided to take a break from sales and try to spend more time with my family and work on my career. It was starting to take up a lot of my free time. However, I did hit a sale today.

Picked up with painting. Anyone have any idea on the signature. I can't find anything, but person I bought it from said it was a known artist.





Also picked up these military medals. Some are WWII. Not sure about the others.



I also found what I'm pretty sure is a human femur bone. I already have a human skull. One more femur and my skull and cross bones will be complete!




Thanks for looking,
bill

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice finds!

I sure like that painting!

 

[SDIceMan]

I found record of a 2005 auction sale of an oil painting by an “L. Safir” titled “Meer Landschaft Mit Hügel”, which translates to “sea landscape with hills”. It sold for $217 USD. Based on the similar content of your painting and what little I can decipher of the signature, it could be the same artist. Unfortunately I can’t find an image of the sold artwork online. Maybe another TNet member will have better luck?

 

[chub]

Pretty picture! love the depiction of light.

A number of skulls and human bones wash up along the skeleton coast here.Sometimes whale bones also. It got its name from shipwrecks (not human remains).Its very desolate. The teeth are usually the easiest give away for non biologists like me to see what kind of a life the person left. Generally no dental work = native. I saw a body wash up on shore in West Africa once . Some interest from the fisherman but by mid morning the *police* had come and looked. John Doe was dragged up into the dunes behind the water line and buried in situ!!
I sent back some pics of my kids holding a skull once to family in Australia - where I think its illegal to own human remains.
made for some entertaining responses

chub

 

[JimDon]

No bones about it that is one weird find

 

[silverdollarbill]

@SDiceMan.....thanks for the info.

@chub....had to look up the "skeleton coast". You live in Nambia?