The earrings go very well with the brooch, but I do not think they are a true set. Will be surprised if the brooch can be shown to be Russian.
Where are the marks on the brooch? The earrings looked Russian/Soviet to me before I went back & read that you said they were coming up that way....
Yes, I was just thinking that. But would you really do it right there if you thought there was a chance it could be coral? Bubble is another...
The hair is bound up in a male fashion at the back. I think we're looking at trans-lava here.
I see bone, no contest.
The 'grain' on the not-coral looks like scrapes/scratches.
The bowl of the pipe looks like a little face, maybe smoking itself, & appears to have the numeral 5 on it.
The hand holding a bunch of flowers is emblematic of friendship. Looks very likely to be jet to me.
It only looks like a little poof from the side. It's more of a bow; I have seen it called a 'Venus knot'. (Neither of these is mine.) [ATTACH]...
This cameo is something you don't see a whole lot of, chalcedonyx. The background layer is untreated chalcedony, so sort of a translucent...
I like her luminescence. I have one somewhat like: [ATTACH]
It's the snub nose that invites the Socrates identification. One of his followers, Alcibiades, I think, describes him as having the face of a...
The Chiron figure on top may indicate owner was a Sagittarius. My overall sense is that the message is even if you are locked away from the...
There's a landscape/skyline behind the bird. Does it mean anything to anyone?
The goddess of discord rolls a golden apple engraved 'To the Fairest' among the gods on Olympus. Hera, Athena & Aphrodite each think the apple is...
It's 'The Judgment of Paris.'
A satyr is another possibility. More bestial, horned, associated with the revelry & debauchery of the bacchanalia.
I read the marks as 'cod(fish) copyright WT' but it didn't produce useful search results.
He puts me in mind of this guy: [ATTACH] John Matthews, 'the Soda Fountain King', a Brit who introduced a technique for carbonation to the US....
You're one cross short of a crucifix.
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