I bet she's sard/sardonyx/striped onyx. It's a stone that has layers and if it's cut properly they can be carved back to make a hardstone cameo.
Both originally; it looks like the pinback broke off or was replaced for safety. These were usually worn both ways when the bail folded down like...
I've seen that game before, and been on the wrong end of the deal more than once. OTOH I once ended up with a freebie at the ReStore because the...
I've never had one to use, but ... the box is a puzzle. I can't read Persian marks either, but a punch mark is a punch mark and I've never heard...
I think you're right. I don't collect lamps and I'd have bagged that one.
Not a clue. Italian maybe?
Avon bottles... if I see those priced singly at a tag sale I usually want to just turn around and walk away. If anyone, anywhere, wants to look up...
From the pictures on the inside, even a non-wood person like me can see it looks like the handle was replaced. The original, being wood, probably...
It's a Whatever box. Whatever fits!
Amen to that.
Horn seconded. Or sounded, if you prefer.
I've seen wooden backings on many Japanese-framed pieces of art. It may also be used in China, for all I'd know. At least it tells us this wasn't...
It's not in a Western language, so I can't read it either.
I can see why the buyer did the happy dance. As for the thrifts, they sound like home. I used to spend a pile in the local Goodwill; I once...
Karelian got my attention - the last I learned it was part of Russia but ethnically Finnish. Norway would fit to, because I bet the birch...
Even better, it seems entirely intact. I bet @Ghopper1924 would give it house room. Dozens if not hundreds of companies made them, so without a...
Essentually, "Congratulations", or "I congratulate you." It's Fraktur and I can sometimes read it.
If not, then close! Pre US Civil War for sure.
All of them would have stories about fixing things done by people who thought they could fix something! Thomas Johnson has been known to fix...
I'd bet on porcelain; they usually were.
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