"Aletta" or.. Valetta? The latter is the capital of Malta and Malta belonged to the British Empire for, googled it, 150 years.
Made in France, Copyrighted design. I think I"m seeing a boar's head silver mark on the end, or similar , with a maker's mark.
Seconded, or thirded. The chain is mass-produced Italian. THey're still at it, exporting to the whole world. The malachite pendant looks like one...
The flowers look like morning glories, if that's any help. Maybe gloxinias. Either would put this squarely in the second half of the Victorian...
It turns up here if it was made in China. The case that used to hold jewelry and video games is now missing a shelf and holding Target clearance...
Score! Thank goodness somebody didn't check!
They're not cheap.
Whenever I find one of these, they're usually a)glass and b) broken.
Molded into the material, probably. I've seen that often on plastic items, never on real ones.
Also longer exposure times. Smiles turned into grimaces.
Late 70s to early 80s costume. I had similar things based on nugget jewelry. It was always costume.
I'll have to go look. I've seen lighter cherry amber, but nothing this dark. Looking at those prices, no wonder...whoops! Restring (knotted!)...
It's a school picture, Feb 1908., 8th grade maybe. They used to do that, especially when a school system only went that far. My grandmother's...
Not necessarily. BTW The tallest guy standing in the back looks like the Jewish man, now 60+, who grew up next door to me. Dead ringer for him...
Purdy. I'm not a big fan of high Victorian glass, but I like the vase.
FREE Lotz? Score! The crazy part was running into a friend on Saturday, and then coming home to a Message from someone we went to school with,...
OK. I took some photos. The dark red beads missing their clasp are bakelite. I think they're supposed to look like opaque cherry amber. The ivory...
Could the guy with white hair be Andy Warhol?
Bingo! I have pictures I need to download from my camera and upload too. FINALLY found some jewelery today worth showing. Went to the bag sale...
Seconded. Polymer clay snake; I've seen that technique used more than a few times. What kind of snake was that, Bev, besides pretty? I wouldn't...
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