I got it re the trade. :) And the value of handmade items. As usual, I just dove head first into a rabbit hole.
They are not expensive but the price doesn’t reflect the time and skill put into making them. They apparently still make them from scratch, and...
But they promise! And “quickly and free of charge”, too! (Add a suitable sarcastic emoji here. I don’t dare to guess…)
Okay, found the site for registering marks...
It’s lovely, something else to look for at flea markets now that I know what it is. I see no reason to doubt it’s from the town of Bida in...
Great — the guys at 925 are really good and have good resources! Unfortunately all of the three erstwhile candidates seem to have retired...
Haven’t been there. The good thing about the Avenida and Caparica ones is that there isn’t that much of totally new stuff— or tourists— like there...
Those were the days my friend…:) before my husband and I agreed that if anything that size followed me home from a flea market, something else...
You can have anything that doesn’t fit in my pockets. I have no space for anything bigger than that. :-( There’s a pretty big market also on...
Yes, that is the silversmith’s registration number so it also applies to gold. No, sorry, the silvercollection.it records don’t go as far as 696...
The silvercollection.it Vicenza list doesn’t go up to 800’s and stops before 696. But there is a smith number 396 who was active in the sixties...
Anything in life can be made so complicated that it needs a special thingamajig. Witness e.g. all the kitchen gadgets for sale. I have a lovely...
I can’t help thinking that the chains once had a real purpose. Maybe the top part of those types of candleholders was once removable so it could...
Thanks— good to have a second opinion!
Will do!
I looked through the catalogs, too. It looks like they were only put online last year. This is from the cover of the second catalogue from 1915...
Okay, you made me do it — @Debora :) I emailed the Ruiz de Luna museum. I zoomed in on the photo in Marote’s post and it says this script and...
The chains are quite heavy-duty. It looks as if it was meant to be lifted off the floor on occasion. I was thinking of a ship too, but the chains...
It’s really cool. Is it really heavy? Are the loops actually of different sizes or is that just an impression due to the perspective and/or lens?...
Thanks evelyb30! The resin center and the electroforming process give it a quite unique handfeel. At first I wasn’t even sure it was silver...
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