Hunh, I used to have a good memory, guess it's pretty much gone now - look what turned up searching for wyverns and gryphons with breasts (prepare...
Close-up back view shows that it's glass and not enamel - it really is a pretty piece. Suspect that sometimes creatures that don't really have...
You can find these silver-mounted boxes pretty easily on Portuguese and Brazilian sites - many have their purpose indicated, in addition to the...
Eh, whatever...
On an enameled butterfly brooch:[ATTACH] On a patinated brass stamp box: [ATTACH] On a Walter Bosse bronze hook: [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
The elements are stamped brass rather than cast, the quality of the stamping is typical, what makes it a better piece is having the cut-to-size...
Almost certainly Bohemian/Czech (not particularly unusual to find pieces marked with both 'Czechoslovakia' and 'Ges. Gesch.'), probably first...
Have to wonder if the story was even true - sounds like the writer (if it wasn't Newton himself) just basically put down what he was told by a bit...
Ya think!?! ~Cheryl
Ellis Newton of Birmingham registered the trademark for 'Virginia Gold' in 1883. Sounds like he was quite a character - according to an 1886...
Rotten scoundrels, they always manage to screw stuff up! If you click on the highlighted 'listing' in the blue bar at the top of replacement...
Too bad it's not more like this one - unfinished, small hexes, papers still intact:...
Interesting mix of fabrics, those quilted patches are different - seem to recall having a little black silk quilted jacket in the '80s. Has a...
Given your location, doubt it's an American quilt, looks like someone's memory/scrap quilt done in the English paper piecing method (not that...
Heh, been playing with buttons since I was a kid - it's what we collectors call it (there's gold luster, and other colors too)... ~Cheryl
The beads are uneven, widely varying in both length and width, some blunt at the ends, others tapering, sometimes only at one end - just wouldn't...
Personally, not really seeing the quality or consistency I'd expect on Czech or any other European beads, or even Japanese - they look more like...
The center on 'B' does look like copper under worn silver plate... ~Cheryl
They're all buttons with the shanks cut off, designed to look like cut steel - first two are stamped brass, the first looks like it might have a...
The 'A' prefix on the production number would date it between 1898 and the early 1930s... ~Cheryl
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