We had her as a cameo just last month: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-239#post-3988235 The reverse...
What is the coin? Do I see part of the word 'francs' & 'Marianne'?
My fine jewellery is almost entirely rings, earrings, brooches & pendants, so small things not bracelets or tiaras. My first concern with how...
I'm going to venture late 60s/early 70s on the first one & 50s on the second.
Think that's reflected in your surname.
The acquisition of rare & beautiful things is never hoarding, IMO.
Think I see La _____ des _____ in one place.
Offering it for sale in an auction is the only way to find out. Value is only the most someone is willing to pay.
Can't tell you about the metals other than that the interior of the pill box must have a different finish. It may have looked like that from the...
Is it definitely rock? Looks more like enameled something.
That handwriting is willfully illegible.
If the relic fluoresced, now that would be something.
His price - or at least part of it, we haven't talked seriously - is his pick of the cameos.
Better for them to represent it that way. They could get a hefty fine if caught selling it. Here in NYC flea market sellers have taken to...
I can't think what other maiden would be chained up that way, but no rock? No monster? One of my nicest cameos is a signed French one of the...
Censer was my immediate reaction. Then I thought it would be difficult to place & light the incense down inside, but stick incense might do just...
The little red button is the bit of cloth under glass or plastic. You do not need to go overseas to bring home a souvenir of Mother Cabrini. She...
Thank you, Kronos. Very kind of you, as always.
The Icarus & Prometheus painting has some appeal for me, but more for subject than execution.
In case you were in any doubt, the beautiful elephant head on the walking stick is ivory.
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