I meant its exposure to sand & saltwater over time, not to a man-driven process. I think this was once a highly polished stone.
Unglazed white tile. It has been suggested in these pages that, if you have no other surface to use, the underside of a toilet tank lid can...
[ATTACH] The pink 'stone' is of course artificial; the stones below are chrysoberyls.
It's a bit hard to tell about the stone because it has been sandblasted. In pix it does appear to have a cat's eye effect, but also appears to be...
Sard is dark brown chalcedony. Sardonyx is banded agate with alternating sard & white layers. If these are any kind of quartz, sard, which is a...
* Since Keats lifted the tale from the Decameron, perhaps they would have known the story without knowing the poem.
I didn't look at this thread when it first went up because I thought, Ho hmu, Mexican pottery. But this is stunning. So glad I dropped in & that...
The gemologist is actually in the closet with the UV light.
I think they're gorgeous & would find reasons to wear them were they mine. Suspect strand & clasp were always together, based on how well the...
You're thinking she's holding the pot of basil? Think Italian cameo cutters would not have been aware of this poem, but...?* On my living room...
Is the theme here BR? Brown Rocks, Boo Radley, Bosko ____ The distinctive heaviness of the stone disinclines me to any quartz identification.
Does putting them in numerical order also order them by weight? If not, they look like collector's inventory numbers to me. Agree with komo that...
Welcome, ljlaash. The cameo is hand carved helmet shell with an illegible acid etched signature on the back. This etching dates the cameo to the...
Were they represented as actual Poniatowski gems? Did you find matches in the Beazley Archive's data base? There may be another Danae, but this...
Yes, that would do it. Sharp eyes, you. Puts me in mind of this exchange between Alice & the White King: `I see nobody on the road,' said...
I've heard of dogs used to find truffles, but jet?! Who's a Good Dog.
I suspect hematite. That would go with the heaviness & the red. I have never seen any that looks like this, possibly because this is not the...
A Goldilocks question: when you weigh them in your hand, do they feel: surprisingly heavy; surprisingly light; about what you would expect from...
From the same Hindman auction: [ATTACH]...
It most surely is, but have seen gorgeous shell sell for far less than humdrum hardstone.
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