It's so blobby, I thought if I said Cairo, someone was sure to come along & say Alexandria. Suspect OP is mainly interested in fineness.
Is the marble polished? Best to do a little reading up on how to clean marble before going at it with alcohol. Marble is not as tough as it seems.
The embroidered one, maybe a cap badge/hat decoration? I was once told that those mixed plastic/metal pin assemblies were a war time thing due to...
Ghopper's is a cat-free home. He has more freedom in his display choices than some of us do. If I did not have my display cabinet, hundreds of...
I don't trust testers. The distance between glass & stone is not far. I see a lot of carnelian & sard; these do not look like it to my eye.
All of the beads look like glass to me.
A Thousand and One Nights.
[ATTACH] It is marked as 800 silver. The P is the date letter for 1939-1940, the last year they used Roman letters before switching to Arabic.
From the link Janet provided: it is not uncommon to see her signature with that of three or four other artists under an item designed by her.
I was squinting at it earlier & that's what I thought it might be.
You can't entirely delete a post; only a moderator can do that. We usually just put the word 'deleted' or even just a period to have something there.
@Ownedbybear
Each of the 3 men in the scene seems to have a different relationship with the snakes: one is actively cultivating them; one is uninvolved &...
The one I have used: https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/hebrew.htm
You can also get an on line Hebrew keyboard that lets you put what you see into type, allowing you to cut & paste into a translator.
I'm not certain it's glass, but I see things that argue that way. In this pic I see something that could easily have been made in a mold. [IMG]...
Czechoslovakia is another possibility. The hinge & clasp say the brooch is vintage, not yet antique.
Welcome, Magalival. Are you trying to load photos from a phone & getting a message that they are too large?
Modern State of Israel seems like something Israelis would have used in the earlier years of the state, to make the point about its being an...
You can't see the trees for the flowers.
Separate names with a comma.
