Hi Marko, I'm just catching up a little. I don't know how readings in the gem tester would compare, but, on visuals alone, white topaz is a...
Copies of pieces or designed using details from a piece, sometimes in another medium.
No reason to think they are not real freshwater pearls. Probably once sold in the V&A gift shop & based on something in their collections.
Thanks for searching. I would never have been able to ID that one either, if I'd come across it in the wild. Similar elements, but I think a...
Thank you, Aqui. It had a lot of features in common with things some people with 'long covid' experience, like having the sequelae without having...
Hi guys. I've been ill in some weird way for several weeks. I'm beginning to suspect it was some sort of CoViD thing, even though I've been...
I think stamp for use with ink rather than seal for making relief impressions.
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I vote opal.
Witch ball?
I'll let you guys thrash out the Weiss business details. I would just remark that with the name spelled in the German manner, if not made in...
Louis Zoellner (originally from Germany) Brooklyn, 1871 - ~1930 Avet & then Lebrethon were teachers of A. St. Gaudens.
Dogs can also stand for faithfulness in love.
Beautiful, both of them. The jugate one looks like sisters to me.
They look like bone to me. I don't see ivory at all.
Yes. Not all conch shell is that color; it can be paler or brighter. But there is no other shell regularly used for cameos that is that delicate...
The tubular beads might be pipestone.
He's really excellent. Portrait cameos of private individuals have been underappreciated. Interest seems to be picking up, though. Portraits of...
I believe the Greek inscription says St. Dimitri.
Pimm?
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