Seconded, silver plus 18k acid yields a funny-looking result. The metal scraped on a black "stone" goes blue/white and "curdles" up. Brass just...
Thought as much. The clasp looked like it said Napier. The 20s filigree at the end is my favorite.
i feel sorry for the poor jools. They do NOT deserve to be smashed up.
I hate to say it, but the Louvre deserved to be robbed given how easy they made it. The French people didn't deserve those jackelopes at the...
You'd only have her with an intact crown!
The chairs look like my sister and BiL's set, oddly enough. Good quality, classic design, and thoroughly not in style (and who cares).
Lots of mentally teenaged men would want her for the mancave, damaged crown or not. :p:p:p
I'm hoping Davey was right; they might make just as much money with a lot less work.
Good old sewing machine oil would be my first stop as long as the egg isn't painted. It's a super-fine grade of oil meant to lubricate an old...
It's a penguin in a chicken hat. an inside job would not surprise me.
The Virgin Mary one would be my favorite. She's not the usual pretty girl cameo.
Nye copper calla lilies - nice! Definitely a Nye mark. I think the flooding down in Ashville a few years ago put them out of business.
I'm thinking what Davey said - ransoming it for a percentage of value would be the smart play if you steal something like this. Getting a payout...
Those are pretty. Throw them on over a black t-shirt and off to the grocery store you go.:D
East African anyway. Head pot stand would make sense. (pot headstand would not, although no doubt it's been tried.)
That's what I'd be thinking too. Perfectly nice 'oh, pretty" plate without any particular origin. I'd have to close my eyes to eat Haggis, so I...
Some days, that sounds about right.
Depends on what kind of week it was!
It looks like a giant pasta shell, but in an odd color. :cool:
I like Headband Girl, but not Renaissance jewel money kind of like. :p
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