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The screw you described to hold on the base - is it the 'Robertson' type shown about a third of the way down the page in this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives) or the external square type shown at the top of the article?If it's a Robertson, the item most likely was made in Canada where that type of screw is really common. I see a lot of that sort of thing in the local antique markets. (I'm in Canada).
I've got a clock, c 1800, with hand-cut squarish brass nuts holding some bits on.It looks to me as though she should be holding a musical instrument which is missing, perhaps a lyre. As a wild stab in the dark I would offer Terpsichore, the muse of dance, who is often depicted with a lyre.It looks like something that could have been liberated from a Parisienne tart's boudoir in the early part of the last century.
Sculpture by Rodin, approx. 1856, value according to Christies. between. 100K - 250K. approx, that is.
It's Venus de Milo
Here she is with arms in that pose http://x.co/cA5x
Hi Race!well you never know? remeber the old woman down in Cornwall, England, cleaning out her attic, found a small insignificant painting, she thought it was uggly and terrible, well it turned out Paul.Cezanne had been in the neighborhood, painting, etc.Price-tag at Sothebys turned out to be, 1.2 million dollars.