@Ownedbybear You are not familiar with prices of gold in the early 1980s in NY, are you? Or course prices at F.I.T.? They do include the cost of...
Your ring reminds me of some examples made by one of my sons when he was learning to make fine jewelry at F.I.T. (New York) in the early 1980s....
@Brian Warshaw Again, I don't make offers, either practical or hypothetical. Glad to read you found one auction result so there's a good start.
Brian, you are not saying in which "local" market you are? I am in the U.S. and as a general rule never make offers. However, similar ceramic...
Showing it here as I don't know where else to start. This is a shell cameo pendant set in 12 kt gf. Sorry, it's an old image from my archives,...
http://foodandsens.com/non-classe/maison-paul-bocuse-devrait-etre-classe-definitivement-trois-etoiles-hors-competition/ It appears to be ceramic...
For what it's worth, I see this in the painting: A woman holding a dead or dying child. The child may have been born malformed, its head is...
@Any Jewelry : Comment?
Intrinsic worth here only refers to what any given material can be sold/traded for in the marketplace at a given time. Such worths are thus...
@Bronwen ...and precious materials as gold and silver. That is my whole point, thanks B!
@Ownedbybear Revising MY sources? I point to them in my articles, linked, do look. And just because some royal personages wore non-fine jewelry it...
@Ownedbybear How's that? Catherine II of Russia could magically convert cut steel, black paste and pinchbeck, even Tassies, to precious jewelry?...
@Any Jewelry Where did I mention Swedish relatives? Never said anything about my relatives. Mine never thought about c.j. one way or the other. I...
@Bronwen I believe you may reading too quickly as you refer to details I have not mentioned. I did not address precious cameos as unworthy of...
@Any Jewelry I just read your input from a European viewpoint. The social stigma there about costume jewelry I just wrote about is very adequately...
@Ownedbybear I don't disagree with you on the English jewelry industries. They are mentioned in my article series, including specific jewelers,...
A clarification: The sentence refers to costume jewelry in general, not glass in particular. Whether anyone chooses to dispute it is up to them....
@Bronwen I'd like to read where you quoted this from as I didn't see it anywhere in my research. Please?
@Ownedbybear Thanks for the reminder that Murano is not a maker. I don't recall saying that, however, but if you can find it I stand corrected...
May I add that I am not trying to start a Vegans R Us thread here. I am not against eating beef and I wear fur too, rabbit and fox, both pests if...
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