Molded with black enamel ... nice!
If you have a blacklight handy, run it under that and see if the stone fluoresces hot pink. Lab rubies tend to glow.
it looks like it. My neighbor had something similar made of costume beads from the mid-1970s. The design was around for a while.
Now the question - do Sunday School prize books from the 1830s sell?
Thirded. Nice little bar brooch. There's no reason a gent couldn't use it as a tie pin if desired, but for the unfamiliar it was worn at the...
They used Italian cameos, probably whatever fit.
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I don't think it goes back that far. The style was around in the 80s and probably in the 50s and 70s too.
Manganese glass?
I think someone set an ornamental inkwell with whatever cameos fit. One is a cavalier (ish) and his lady, and one looks like Romeo and Juliet....
Shalimar was my favorite, but I don't wear perfume any more. ebay won't let you sell perfume as perfume unless it's NIB. If it's open, you're...
I keep seeing Parad[e]. Paradise maybe?
No idea. I know an antique dealer who does some of it, but maybe a jewelry store that buys gold?
I'd go hit up a guy who melts jewelry but saves and resells the stones, and find some that fit and look good. Those rings deserve to live.
I could probably figure it out, but those thin brass wires were made to fall apart alas.
The celluloid piece might be French. The whist pin ... not Samoan? Maybe some weird tagalong? That guess is a little thin (mint).
Deco jewelry is a favorite of mine.
Yup. I've seen those patent dates before.
I have, but not recently.
Some sort of enameling, looks like.
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