When the pin stem is opened all the way, does the central part of the brooch swivel? When the man is right way up, the brooch is upside down....
This is a botanical query: do sycamore trees in Scotland have seeds that look like those of maples in the US?
I can hear Diana asking, Does this doll make me look fat?
A friend who knows a little about it says the Klingon is Japanese, written in a script that is used for foreign words.
To my completely inexpert eye, these look deliberately mangled by someone playing around with hitting, cutting & punching them in different ways.
I did a search for 'Couyancy petit point': https://www.etsy.com/listing/866084632/native-american-zuni-petit-point
The Nike & the Angel are mass produced, although etched into genuine mother of pearl, by what means I do not know. I only ever see these 2...
First item looks like bone to me.
Since the pin assembly was a pre-made unit, it was attached upside down, through inattention or to accommodate the left handed. It doesn't look...
It's marked as 800 silver, but I think the assay office looks more like Cairo than Assiut. Looking at the silver site, I see the 800 mark is in...
[IMG] Curious about the pin assembly. It is 'backwards', i.e., not convenient for a right handed wearer to pin on & have the cross be right way...
Dragonfly. Good catch, @Kronos
So many gorgeous pieces. About 8 of them are my very most favorite. This is one arena where I cannot compete. Best I can do: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Leather was my first thought too. My dad still had some tools around from a job he'd had that included cutting leather. Think he had something...
Sneaker looks more like Adidas than Nike, but they started around the same time in the 60s. In the US in those days they were known as track...
Could it be an anchor?
How long is the stick thing? Except for the cross, looks a lot like a yad (torah pointer).
What I'm trying to learn, when it comes to brooches as we generally understand the term today, as an item of personal adornment that attaches to...
Were these pinned on or sewn on?
For that matter, when did brooches that were strictly decorative rather than functional, i.e., not something to hold your clothes together like a...
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