She has an ancient origin: https://www.ebay.com/itm/334855549848 [ATTACH]
A very good price for what you got. A fair price for what seller thought they were offering. I have more than once acquired a nice hardstone...
Your description is consistent with sardonyx, hardstone, both the deep red under strong light & appearance of blue at the edges, which is really a...
George Washington died in 1799. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, if that is what's meant, was just a twinkle in John Jay's eye in 1866. This...
Hanau typically distinguishes itself with a plethora of important looking pseudomarks. Yours seems marked very honestly.
Anyone know where the remote control for my space heater is? Thought I'd ask, just in case. At ease. Found it, although it seems to need a new...
The question in my mind was when did Avon first get into the jewellery business? Google obligingly told me: What years did Avon make jewelry?...
No hot needles, please! Ivory is dense & heavy for its size. It may show either of the growth lines mentioned above or be quite featureless....
If you mean the Schreger lines that give that engine turned look, they do not show in all sections of tusk. Is this what you mean? [ATTACH]...
The double ("jugate") cameo looks like Victoria & Albert. The lone female also looks like Vic, but don't recognize the other male....
Personal taste/opinion, but I would take a Sunshine cloth (tarnish remover wipe) & apply it lightly to the edge panels to brighten the ridges,...
I lost a dessert size glass plate for weeks & only found it when I moved something while looking for something else. The plate was in between.
You're asking about the setting. Not my area of expertise. It's a classic design, the gold roping accent on silver.
The cameo is shell, 50s/60s.
https://www.rubylane.com/item/2093710-H-021922-080/Cuff-Links-C-H-Chapin-Hollister
Or maybe it's C&H CO? https://poshmark.com/listing/Antique-C-H-Co-Sterling-Silver-and-Diamonte-Stones-Brooch-Pin-622aa82dffba944a4d2f909c Chapin...
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I'm straying off my patch here, but, anyone else think these would qualify as engine turned/guilloché (without enamel)? My semi-informed opinion...
[ATTACH] There's no doubt some proper heraldic term for the way the tree on the shield is contained other than 'fenced', but I don't know it.
I have lots of rings I need to sell. Many are cameos, chalcedony, so outside this racket. But many others are synthetic color change sapphires,...
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