I wouldn't risk even a weak acid in cleaning calcium carbonate-based materials such as shell & coral. The interaction that causes the bubbling is...
I was ready to say 'fob seal' until I got to the pix & saw it is not designed to hang. I'm making up a term: 'pocket seal'. Can't tell, an...
Or Puritan Furniture Co.
In the closeup that shows the pink beads on the brooch, the color of the beads suggests they are conch shell. However, in all the other photos...
Definitely looks like resin.
I've had this bookmarked for a long time. Haven't used lately, but from what I remember, it's supposed to be a guide for young people. It had my...
I haven't got it memorized, so may get this slightly wrong, but in Christian iconography, there's a difference between a halo & what you aptly...
What an interesting setting. It's actually the prongs that hold the cameo in place that are particularly unusual. Surely that is Mary with...
Copper oxidizes to a blue-green. Too little of that here for copper.
If the little hole on the front, the left hand circle, goes through to the back, green could be verdigris from current or past brass pin fitting....
Welcome. It looks like ivory to me, particularly in the first pic. The extra holes appear to be for a larger, heavier pin than the one there now.
I think bunny & the elements that suggest a tail are just decorative. I know rabbits turn up in Chinese art; how common are squirrels?
I see it the same way you do. She is the Muse Erato.
Looks like an ashtray to me. We've had others of that basic design.
With rare exceptions, brooches with the pin mounted horizontally are the right way up when a right handed person could easily pin it on herself by...
You're right I got tangled up. I'm on board with Egyptian 800. I mostly see tourist souvenir jewellery. This seems more like something an...
The marks do not look Egyptian to me & neither does the bracelet. One of the other countries that uses eastern Arabic numerals for their assay...
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It is similar in many ways to the one kikoblueeyes posted some time ago & that one definitely has glass stones....
The stones look wrong for genuine opal to me too.
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