PENELOPE PINNING FOR ODYSSEUS Uh huh. [ATTACH]
In my, limited, experience, they require thicker lead than we use nowadays. The loading procedure Davey describes is the one I have encountered...
These old ones often use a size of lead that is no longer standard. Do you have the right size of lead for it?
I don't collect miniatures, but have been intrigued by the Parsis ever since reading Kipling's Just So story about how the rhinoceros got its...
Too divine!
Lida, the Unknown Lost Gorgon. Or gorgonzola, for those in the know. ;)
Strikes me as 1970s too. 'Geometric' is another term that could apply to it. The way 14K is written in an almost cuneiform way interests me.
The claim is that it is "Lida and The Swan." Think, based on saga related in the description, that seller's pronouns are she/her. E.g., "I have...
I got absolutely giddy trying to follow it all. And of course, as elaborate as the setting is, it doesn't look at all like Castellani.
This could qualify for the Laughable eBoo thread, but I think readers of this thread will appreciate it more: Museum Quality Lida and The Swan...
Owwww! Another good reason to detest it. :yuck: By the time it got done there could have been serious damage. I really was lucky. :cyclops:
It definitely defied the camera. :playful:
If it was genuinely meant to be used as a signet ring, what would be important is how it looks in reverse: [ATTACH]
May have started out that way, but anyone who wears post earrings knows what can happen over time. I know too well. :(
I can't make out what's on the shield below the creature's legs, can you?
BTW, do you have the clutches for the posts?
I honestly can't imagine interest in them except for the melt value. Not enough for someone to buy them with a view to having the missing petal...
A better, more likely thought than mine. :)
What would you do with the cameos if you could get them out intact? Marked for Naples, the home turf of the modern shell cameo. Probably 1960s,...
Thank you for sharing the solution to the puzzle. :)
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