They cook old-school and use what's handy, at least traditionally. Don't forget that a lot of what we use machines for they do by hand. When...
As Bear said, probably a mourning piece, or an engraved back or some such. It was meant to be reversible so you got two looks with one pin....
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I found a similar one in copper once, but it was fairly busted up. Bear scored an intact one. NICE!
Or some Barry White.
I wouldn't mind finding the originals of the beads in a charity shop somewhere, but the painted ones weren't done very well.
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I think they're just having a good time.
Yipe! I hate hot glue, unless it's being used for fake flowers, plastic buttons etc. Finding even a single pool of light bead in the wild is a...
That's not one I recognized either. I've got a few rings somewhere that tested negative for gold, silver and platinum but that I knew were something.
I'd be thinking 1970s too, just from the design.
The snap backs on the Turkish earrings look like the ones on a Soviet set I found (my cousin called dibs already) but this ain't that. I do...
I once scored two 18k chains from a pile of "costume". The seller runs an antique store and either totally missed the marks or thought they were...
That's a nice haul. I'd look for gold anyway; you'd be surprised what slips through when people don't know their marks. I look for copper too,...
Some go for a bundle, but most are tag sale fodder.
They didn't have any backing, hence the breakage. I've found later ones done in celluloid or other plastics.
I bet this has an audience out there - solicitors, barristers, parliamentarians, and employees/friends/family of same. The only question is what...
It's molded glass, not blown, so from a factory somewhere. It has a recycled style texture if that's any help.
Nice! I know some potties who'd love to raid those cases.
It was the "getting lied to" part that rankled. If he'd been honest about it things might not have stung as much.
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