The innards look like pyrite; the outside looks chemically treated. I feel I've heard what this is before but it's not coming to mind. Not bismuth.
I thought you meant there were dots all over, not just a few here & there. The analysis is still on.
I couldn't see it at first either. The head is turned back to the left. What I don't see is a mane, so maybe a lioness? In my glyptic world...
It's a print.
Looks like a watch chain & fob.
Where there is enamel, is the design repeated on both sides? Or does the other side look different? If backs are plain, could we see them?
I just see chisel marks that haven't been completely smoothed out. She has one of the fine brown lines I referred to in my last message in her...
Thanks for the endorsement. :kiss:
I quite like conch shell cameos myself. It can provide a much thicker piece of material to work with than can helmet shell, allowing it to be...
Do you mean fine light brown lines running parallel in the white part? If, so, they are natural to the shell. The article I referred you to...
She was offered on eBay. Good spot, Urania it is, or is meant to be. This one is mine: [ATTACH]
A coral Bacchus: [IMG]
She is a bacchante, and, as kyratango has told you, cut in conch shell. Please study & learn to recognize the difference from this (maybe you...
So post-AB, pre-reunification. Probably 1960s sometime.
I don't feel like researching this, so maybe someone else will know, but I seem to recall that not so very long ago Britons were legally...
I was wondering if there could possibly be a W under there, but don't see room for it. [ATTACH]
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When I showed something to my friendly neighborhood Yemeni shopkeeper to get his confirmation that the Arabic mark was a 12, he turned it in his...
The first one I call Headband Girl, & I believe her to be the most reproduced cameo in the world. If yours says 'Germany' & not 'W. Germany' we...
I call ones like this hatchet faces because they look like they were cut with a hatchet. I can't imagine how many of these have been cranked out...
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