Topic: Mdina or other

[PWA]

Hi Guys, I'm a newbie to posting on GMB although I have read for some time now, thought it was time to get involved and I'm going to be cheeky and begin with a question. Does anyone know anything about this object? I have been told that it 'may' be Mdina although that is more guess work than research. It is 235mm tall and weighs in at an impressive 2.28kg. It is a very dark and iridescent burgundy colour under daylight, but if lit from below or behind it seems to glow a deep blood red. It is a rough elongated pyramid shape with applied random strapping. Many thanks in advance for any guidance you may wish to offer. Paul.

[Lustrousstone]

Welcome to posting. If it's Mdina, it is pretty new because of the colour. Your pictures are also still rather small. If you make them about 700 pixels on the longest dimension that usually gives a good size for attaching and seeing. You have 125kb per picture.

[PWA]

Hi Christine, many thanks for the photo tip, I tried resizing these in photoshop but ended up with either 950k pics or pics at 5dpi  :spls:. I think it must be due to the original photos being taken in high res on a 18Mp camera (oops) must remember to turn the quality down a notch for web content photographs and start off closer to the target.  :thup:

[Lustrousstone]

Don't turn it down too much, otherwise we lose too much. I start with pix taken on a 10 megapix camera taken at max res and the 700 pixel thing seems to work fine.

[PWA]

fingers crossed, let's see how this one works out. using the cameras native resizing software rather than messing about with PS

[PWA]

Yay! :hiclp:

[chopin-liszt]

Much better - I can see it properly now. I don't think Mdina - Mtarfa is a possibility - I know they have made pyramid shaped pwts, with a surface texture, marvered flattish, as this is, but I do not know if they've made them this big.

[PWA]

Many thanks Sue, It's starting on ebay tomorrow, hopefully will sell well, only problem is the weight for international shipping (even UK) is so steep on heavy items that the average ebay customer doesn't realise it's an accurate shipping cost, they just see it as expensive as most don't post out that often. Hey ho! nothing ventured nothing gained eh!