Don't you love it when a new/fake chain fakes the sellers out! Or a costume pendant? My find of the week was blind luck. I went to a charity...
None of them "read" antique to me, but they're pretty. The one with the tumbling blocks is a design that could date to the Victorian era, but I...
Looks like somebody scored this weekend!
Definitely a live kid in that one!:p
I thought he was talking about Ants. Horror movies don't scare me too much; real life... real life scares me.
Since this is reporposed, maybe the top is unusual because this is only the bottom half of a piece and the top disappeared. Since they had to...
I've got enough woodworking and art major friends locally that the work involved was enough to make me like it. The style isn't totally mine, but...
Is that French for the old Mothproof mark? You can't get wool treated with that any more; the chemicals aren't allowed.
It's not the Schoffel mark - an Austrian company that actually marked their stuff. These are way too modern for me to know much. Pretty though.
I'm betting it cost more than $200 in 1880s dollars, when it was new.
The two girls had to be resin - flat back. I've seen that cameo before too,the exact image. File them under German Headband Girl.
If I'd had any place to put it and a way to get it there I'd have nabbed it too. At least three other people said the same while I was standing...
Everything in San Fran was imported and $$$ until the Panama Canal opened. (Still is, come to it.) That would explain why it was redone at least...
One of mine was born in 1896 too. I'd have figured the case for mid-19th century European. San Francisco was a magnet for anyone and everyone,...
Definitely an earring. .800 silver clip-on, probably 50s era. I've worn enough of them! A dress clip would be oriented the other way and have...
The company must have imported some carvers from Italy or Germany. Maybe both. The buyer got a screaming steal is all I know.
Maybe even Renaissance if memory serves.
Yup. Two weeks ago I went to something advertised as "big multifamily estate and tag sale"...and spent US$2 - less than a cuppa joe. There was...
amen. Hot pins make real jewelry collectors want to take them to the wielders. Under their fingernails. Acid tests on the FRONT of a piece will...
Probably, if you can string it yourself. I hand-knot stuff all the time. It's not that difficult once you've figured out how.
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