I found three once years ago, and sold them all. One went back to the Takahashi family. Later I found a bird pin with a safety pin clasp that I...
Not a name I've ever seen. Nice detective work.
The front of the bird looks like a perfect match to the ones I've seen. The legs looked right. The only thing that was "wrong" was the clasp......
well DUH! You have shown cats. Cat tax had to be paid. (mrow)
Welcome and...not a clue.
Welcome! Who are your avatars? Besides gray and furry?
It wants to be a Ciner mark, but the part on the front says it's not. Unless it is.
It beats it ending in a landfill. The same for off-white carved "material" here.
WHEEEE! Freakin' gorgeous. We can't buy tortoiseshell here unless no one knows what it is.
DINGDINGDING!
Agreed.
I am not a furniture expert, but the latch on the top doesn't look 18th century. The keyhole outside looks wrong too. Too clean; a really old one...
Darned tootin! As the late, great Dorothy Sayers wrote "a bullet can go anywhere, but steel is bound to go somewhere."
Cutlasses, from the big hand guards and the slightly curved blades. I'm no sword expert, or even close, but Navy guys had different blades than...
Welcome fellow junque junkie!
Or as I say : Modern + mass-produced = MELT IT
Two Graces and a Booty!
Or else made in China for sale elsewhere, to someone who knows which Chinese zodiac sign is theirs or wanted somthing from the Year of the Pig....
That's another good idea. I admit a bezel was my first thought, but that would require a bench jeweler and $$$.
Very possible, as long as something else is in back of the lace. I'd put yours on black velvet in a 10x15cm-ish frame, but with lace it would be...
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