For most things auctioneers take the word of the consignor for nature of an item. Guess they don't have to take into account the wishful thinking...
Really interesting subject, off the beaten path, as it were. Here is the Poniatowski gem on the theme:...
I see glass here too. Wonder how sure they are, given the spread on the estimate: $200 - 2,000.
I'm with komo, boot jack.
Ooh, Deco a go-go. She's not their best modeled work, but think she is meant for Venus/Aphrodite (see left). Her greatest value by far is that...
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I'd call them 'hex[agonal] nut' cufflinks, but that's American hardware terminology.
Probably Mick Jagger.
Have never seen so much work put into rose bushes. She's just lovely & looks wearable.
[ATTACH] I want this one. Europa? Or some kind of taurophilia?
At the Met, on a mezzanine above the main exhibits of the Greek & Roman department, there is a huge display of those tiny ring stones & no kind of...
The reading looks the same to me too, but in searching, I am only having a bit of luck with 'Zuieback'. Could it be?
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Very cheerful. Maybe it's Jan?
I used to put my 2 cents in on cameo listings that needed correcting quite a lot, when I was learning rapidly myself. Think only one person told...
Good thought. I'm not sure how, maybe because it was a special treat, but the pineapple became a symbol of hospitality. Pomegranates symbolize...
Pomegranate, I think. The seeds are quite large compared to the hundreds that must be in a poppy pod. While the body shape is not spherical, it...
See you have several little cowrie shell cameos among the ornamentation.
Venus, if she's looking in a mirror.
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