This is just nitpicking because I don't have anything really useful to contribute: 'ormolu' is not synonymous with gold-plated or gold tone. It...
It would be the perfect name if they glued the stoppers in so you couldn't get at the booze! This is both tempting & convenient.
I was looking for the info on angles earlier today, remembering there having been a good article about it on the US Fish & Wildlife web site....
There is also a tantalus. Sometimes colonies hang on to earlier spellings/pronunciations when language in the home country has moved on. That...
Beyond decent! The presence of any gold is - and has been - jacking prices up, of course, but something more was going on here. The winning...
Now, if you had a gasogene, you could pretend you were Sherlock Holmes.
I see no reason to think this cameo of Hermes/Mercury is not contemporary with the mount. It is certainly not Victorian and, if Edwardian, more...
Baby's first chopsticks?
I thought I had a bunny PEZ dispenser, but, when I checked, it turned out to be a lamb.
And Peter keeps the site up. It's true though that this & related threads are some of the best info on the Internet.
Therein, I think, lies the rub. Work in shell, being seen as much easier to do than work on stone, has not been seen as much of an art. James...
She's just lovely, and, as you rightly point out, so sculptural, and so full of life. Conch shell really is an excellent material for cameos of...
[Started this hours ago, before PA showed us her first goody.] Ooh, ooh, ooh! Show, show, show! I don't know who is out there anymore with an...
Mine is a funny piece of business, a marriage I think. The pin part is a simple chevron shape with a hook on the back, marked 'SILVER', maybe...
We had a Dazey butter churn my mother bought to use with her kindergartners, but we had fun with it at home too. Fresh sweet butter on hot bread,...
[ATTACH] https://www.ebay.com/itm/276490038898 This one is described as Limoges. This listing is gone, but described as Japanese. [ATTACH] I...
It's a bit like something I have. Don't know if this is a single baroque pearl or 2 blister pearls cleverly joined to look like one. No...
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Yum. Blister pearl, one that formed attached to the shell's inner surface.
I'm sleepy. See there are 3 in blue glass. The one I have not already mentioned looks like Artemis/Diana with her sacred hind.
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