Broke my face just in time for Halloween. Fortunately I'm not Humpty Dumpty & they put it together again, but still have some discoloration...
I love the use of 'expertise' as a verb. I'm stealing the idea. :D For all the appreciations so many of you have left me, :shy: :kiss: Just...
If you go to this link, you may get a security warning, but I think that is probably because the link has had so few users. I can see no reason...
We have members who seem to be able to find lists of Italian jewellers by their number; I'm not one of them. Being able to put a name to the...
!! indeed. Keeping shell cameos in cardboard boxes is conducive to Byne's Disease. Don't do it. The shell has alternating layers of white &...
Impressions of this gem are rarely complete. The V&A has a shell cameo by James Ronca, which he copied from a medallion by Thomas Woolner, who...
People collected them by the hundreds, even thousands, especially the less expensive plaster impressions. They kept them in purpose-built...
I see 925, the fineness mark for sterling silver. The number with NA indicates the Neapolitan jewellery company who set this helmet shell cameo,...
Am trying to ID #2. It appears that the image is cut off around the edges, which means that the 'signature' (they were all false) that would have...
Nathaniel Marchant did the original engraving, he did not make the glass copy. The point of intaglios is kind of that they can make copies of...
Pan Looks like a copy of a Poniatowski gem but I don't recognize this one right off. Male may be Apollo. Cupid chained. Looks like there could...
I just like the idea of amber in a bug instead of a bug in amber.
Can't see the A being part of PAX, leaving the omega all on its own, unless you were meant to use the A in both ways.
And I was thinking a dyslexic mosaicist got his chi rho reversed. On a class trip to the Jewish Museum, the guide was showing us a tiled floor...
Gonna look great when you start using it for its intended purpose & it has all that wax dripping down. :D
Is it magnum size? Larger? Always wanted to see a jeroboam.
You're 60ish, the ring is 60ish, that's something. Does she especially like rubies, or is it her birthstone (July), or are you planning to marry...
It would be a date letter. Given the wear to the marks, I can see it as possibly a lower case a, rather than a P. With nothing much left except...
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I'm with MOS: souvenirs of Tut exhibitions, different years, different institutions....
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