Some people use mineral oil on their cameos to brighten them up, disguise any dulled places, but I wouldn't trust it not to leave bits exposed to...
Looks like a really messed up instance of this: [ATTACH] This one is faux marbre & I suspect yours is faux bronze; the same company made both....
She doesn't make it easy to see things, but her 'stones' - pretty sure they're glass - I think are copies of gnostic gems, some of them with...
From the mega thread, this is what you risk asking an appraiser to evaluate a cameo: CAMEOS: Show & Tell or Ask & Answer A decent jeweller can...
Before there were ents there was Arthur Rackham. [ATTACH]
Oh, & it's really not necessary to go jabbing a hot needle into it to figure out the material of any cameo you have in hand, although bluumz & I...
Another is that vinegar can dissolve calcium carbonate, of which coral is made. Ketchup helps keep the vinegar from flowing around unconstrained,...
I'm sure you'll all sleep better for knowing I found my MOP necklace. However, despite my fervid hopes, elves had not fixed the knot for the clasp.
Amazing what you can do with a standard cameo of Hera. Perhaps the best known commesso of our day is this one of the young Queen Victoria by...
The one place I can see needing it is a props house that rents to big period productions, such as Gosford Park, where there's a manor or country...
It would need to be quite a large monkey. And no canines in the set.
The handle issue bothered me too. Does appear to require a padlock, not so usual with document/despatch boxes I would think.
Seems a bit like a trophy, so perhaps elk, moose?, although horse not out of the question.
I don't collect stickpins per se, but have acquired some over time. A number of them are in a vintage salt shaker & a few others are inserted...
There's one of those geyser things in Lake Geneva, but this looks like a smaller place.
Could it be for ammunition?
Since the other seems to be a grain measure, perhaps these are sieves for grain? This is one kind: [ATTACH]
It is a chicken, yes? Only one hole for contents to shake out?
Like a small modius.
I'm impressed by the excellent condition of all those delicate little petals.
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