@verybrad can you please post a good photo of the back of the rhinestone pin? The center stone has an Aurora Borealis finish (AB rhinestone),...
Can you take a close up of the bird in the cross? I suspect it's not mosaic but pietra dura but I need to see a close up. Either way it's a beauty!
This is the patent for the clip mechanism, not the design of the front of the earrings :)
As a design patent it comes up as the clip mechanism, the original application filed by Ballou & Co. is dated 1934:...
I like the one on the bottom left. White moonglow glass painted with moths, very unusual. [ATTACH]
Got a lot of jools and a couple of silver items. Nothing special but quite a few pieces that will nicely fill in my table at local sales. The...
JMHO, both are lovely despite the damage. I would have picked them up for those low prices just to rescue them :)
The back looks like fiber board, so not vintage or antique, JMHO :wideyed:
Sorry I can't come up with anything more :(
Take it out into strong sunlight, if uranium glass you will see a glow. It won't be as obvious as with a black light, but you will see something...
According to what I am seeing online, ironstone is earthenware, not porcelain.
Abalone.
Near our house is a portion of the Cape Cod Rail Trail, and old railroad bed that has been paved over and is a bike/walking trail. Where the trail...
Looks crudely made :(
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I guess I thought transfer printed because the area I circled in bright green is done so differently from the the over-painted flowers, umbrella,...
Can't help much, sorry, but they look like transfer printed (the terra cotta color) with painted details (green, blue, mulberry, black, yellow)....
At shows I've had people ask if I could hold something for them, I give them a half hour, that's it. Experience taught me not to hold items longer...
I think they started asking for information about items during COVID. They had limited number of people bringing things and needed to make sure...
OMG! I'm so glad someone else does that!!!!! I'm always hitting the cpas lock when I'm aiming for an "a" :D
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