Those horns are cat toys; just ask a cat.
I've taken to perusing on line estate auctions too. Even bid on a few if they were local enough and had anything I wanted. I've seen art go...
It looks mighty uncomfortable for wearing purposes too. Not contoured properly on the back. The weight doesn't look far off though.
You have to love old places where people hid treasure from raiders.. or the tax man.
I think it's just a B. The pin back is made like a convertible fur clip, but it's newer. The maker's marks are of a type used after fur clips went...
Where I am you can't sell the animal version of celluloid at all. Age irrelevant, including the fossil variants.
Definitely purse-sized. The sheets inside look like the infamous unsellable white stuff, so no good for sale on the open market. If they are, then...
The clasp jumps up and down and screams India. It's pure costume, and probably dates from between the late 80s and last week. If I were guessing...
Any's keris looks "happy", if an inanimate object can look happy. The OP's doesn't.
Yup. Still done by nobility/royalty when Henry was young. That's an unreal find. Around here metal detectorists are lucky to find coins, bottle...
Yup, she is. She's the only reason I know what it is, and knows more of these knives than the rest of us put together. It doesn't look like it...
Somewhere out there, a six year-old is putting them on her Christmas list.:p:p:p
Worth a shot. Personally I'm rather useless.
I'm more the parure type - necklace, brooch or bracelet, and earrings.
They were a Thing too, just don't ask me the name. It never caught on, thankfully.
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