[ATTACH] Wonder whether that downward sloping section isn't meant to go the other way up, to catch drips rather than to help them on the way to...
Maybe there was a wood base. Easier on surfaces than metal hippocamp feet.
I don't know which is worse: knowing that people around me are armed; not knowing who around me might be armed.
She gets superb cameos & does a lot of good research on them, but, like all of us, she is wrong sometimes & in this case I think we have wishful...
Both cameos are of the poet Pascoli? I sincerely doubt it. I think Pascoli is the very skilled cutter. He really mastered the pose with the...
Yes. [ATTACH]
Ammendola is a contemporary cameo cutter, maybe affiliated with CASCO, which has a stable of cutters. For subject matter I would go with Venus &...
I thought there was a chance they were color change sapphires, but definitely not. Pin/clasp arrangement is backwards, unless you're left handed....
There is what is probably the medallist's mark at 6 o'clock on the un-enameled side. (I'm not sure which side is obverse & which is reverse.)...
Egg poacher as I remember: [ATTACH] But there is also: [ATTACH]
Think this is the classic technique, but we Americans like things to be a uniform shape, so we have pans that are just for what we call poached...
I thought of the more pedestrian poached eggs.
Think this is a typo on the part of the web page. Surely it's MATER DEI?
A search for 'bookchain necklace' will turn up others with the same feeling.
J. Trodnet?
It worked properly for me. Try saying that 5 times fast.
In the pic of the back, is that the hinge on the left & the clasp on the right?
How do the stones react to UV light?
I see such beads described as carved peach pits, but have always had my doubts.
Rudraksha seeds, some of them? A couple look like chestnuts.
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