Maybe Escher was just relating the barbels to a cat's whiskers... ~Cheryl
Carp/Koi - catfish have no scales... ~Cheryl
Neither Art Nouveau nor Art Deco, and doubt its manufacture dates as early as either design era - would also suspect a cast brass museum...
Here's a page that gives some simple descriptions of Venetian/Murano glass techniques - it has a couple of images of Avventurina, can scroll down...
It's gold foil inclusion, if you look at the second to last pic, the edge of the broken-up gold leaf sheet can be seen - aventurine/avventurina is...
Suppose it's as likely as a '920' silver mark - on the other hand, even discounting what I was told, two different auction houses in Australia...
Must've been close to twenty years ago when I saw this mark, interesting because of the '920' - asked an Aussie silver collector about it and he...
Your link shows a hand-crafted brooch with the same round dog motif from the Book of Kells, bearing proper Aiden J. Breen hallmarks - your piece...
Not Aiden J. Breen's mark - the sponsor's mark would belong to an importer/retailer... ~Cheryl
Pretty sure I have similar earrings, but most of my dragonflies are packed up at the moment......
I read 'STERLING' too. It's fairly recent, sometime in the last 20-30 years, either Jezlaine or produced by the one of the Thai manufacturers...
Eh, gotta run, but took a very quick look for the maker - no luck, but found these two pieces, also with horn:...
It's Australian silver, 20th century - somewhere in the back of my head, think I knew the maker years ago, but not coming to me at all. Looks...
Spurious marks that insinuate greater age can definitely be found on silver - but not seeing where an age for this bracelet or the other unmarked...
Coincidentally, a set of spoons in the same pattern as my '650' spoon was posted elsewhere, with a Schleswig maker's mark, prick engraved with an...
Little shot, common here too, in both plate and sterling - looks like it's engraved with something like 'Only a Thimble Full' (maybe by Simons...
Hmmm, pretty poorly struck or rubbed, but looks like 1904 or later British import marks to me - town mark/925/date letter, the larger mark perhaps...
My Dragestil napkin ring with a variant of the Prydz crown mark: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
Hroar Prydz (scroll down for his info in English): https://solvstempler.no/hroar_prydz.html ~Cheryl
Modelled on a typical German carved wood deer, likely from Erzgebirge - they're not really identical and it looks more like styrene than celluloid...
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