There’s greater makers, agreed, but the mice are lovely. I’ve a mouseman cheeseboard, albeit relatively modern.
Small point, sponsor mark, as I always say, rather than maker. It’s whoever had it assayed.
Shangas, that’s absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much.
Yup, agreed. It’s absolutely typical of some double or miss strikes I’ve seen.
Yikes, who did that horrible scratch. Early twentieth or late nineteenth, probably simply says 18 ct.
Have a look at this. https://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/629a.htm
I’d call those Persian rather than Moroccan style. Lovely quality.
Do not get me started on the nonsense end of day term. ;) It’s spatter glass and I’d agree on twenties or thirties Czech on the shade.
they absolutely do not, and they’d be in trouble if trading standards saw that letterhead.
The appraiser is one of those cash for bling places. I doubt they tested it. They’re pawnbrokers, and I think I bought a ring there a few years...
I think that’s Japanese. Forties into fifties. Shape is nouveau but colour and decoration is very festival of Britain.
It’s a Cyprus mark for 18 carat, yes. Looks typical of some of the rather lovely honking big cocktail rings sold there. Could well be aquamarine.
Older than that, these go back to the nineteenth century. And very saleable. I’d have grabbed it for the owls.
So have I, it’s maddening.
I’ve some very similar Grosse pieces. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was a Pforzheim maker.
It's annoyingly familiar. Style screams late eighties into nineties. Agree on CE. I did find one on Reddit, but no one knew who it was.
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Oh, me too. What a sight.
Missed this. I’d agree on Czech, probably possibly thirties.
Don’t get me started on AI. I have fun sometimes using it to “identify” things and laugh at the result.
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