Yup, '80s sounds about right, and they were in about every department store. Can remember Mom receiving one as a gift, so the thing had to be...
Looks to me like a staghorn (antler) key fob that someone put on a neckchain......
Oops, Bear already answered! ~Cheryl
Looks more like 1960s or later French Lucite, might be Lea Stein... ~Cheryl
Hi Linda! So good to see you back, have been concerned... ~Cheryl
Not a Jeffrey Benjamin, his interior label often came off, but there would be an inset brass logo on the side - there were quite a few other...
Don't know the maker, but as Bakersgma suggests, French and it's definitely silverplate - mistletoe is a very common French motif (and especially...
Brad, I've always thought of 'Japanning' as black lacquer - the crystalline finish on old trunks and boxes was done with a chemical (darned if I...
Been a while since I've seen a crystallized tin trunk, from what can be seen, yours looks to be in pretty good condition... Brad's dating is...
Sorry, just not seeing a mystery material here - no reason to believe it's anything other than the typical ox horn, there are still Scottish firms...
Looks to me like the typical ox horn used for these spoons, they can range from light beige to almost black, sometimes various tones on one piece....
Very nice! Karen, you and I have quite a few spoons in common too... Paye & Baker, Alvin, Alvin, Dominick & Haff for Greenleaf & Crosby:...
Fineness for your coin should be .896 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces35033.html ~Cheryl
Here is a much fiercer lady, the Danish warrior Queen Thyra - sorry, crummy old pics, though I do still have them, packed away - the first a youth...
Lovely spoons, S_I_S - American silver manufacturers produced so many amazing patterns. For those interested, in that first pic, from top to...
Why do you think .925 fineness? ~Cheryl
It is not Sackett & Co. - most reference sites and books will have errors (some more than others), this is one of a few I've run across on...
German, mid 20th century, made by Gebruder Deyhle... ~Cheryl
At that size, they were most likely described as stemmed bon-bon dishes, though they might also been combined in a set with tiny matching...
See no reason to think it's other than gold - if part of a set, might have been done as a special order at R&B, or could have been applied by a...
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