This brooch was not made by lost wax casting, it was, like the other pieces I've seen with this mark, produced by electroforming, silver over a...
Cypriot - maker's mark/official silver mark/fineness. ~Cheryl
Rod Steiger in The Illustrated Man - better book than movie... ~Cheryl
Stainless steel is produced in different qualities and for different purposes, and it's quite often non-magnetic - would guess that the 'INLESS...
Pepperette with matching open salt:...
Very pretty piece, but my monitor must be pretty bad, or the pictures are deceptive, because I see only limited areas of gold on a white metal...
On the bar pin, looks like art glass to me too, the construction reminds me of some mid 20th century pieces that were coming out of Mexico - Tono...
Ummm - that little pot on top may be ceramic, but I'm pretty sure that the pedestal is a couple of glass jars that originally held coffee or...
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelasanda/china-straw-paintings ~Cheryl
Heh - same here... ~Cheryl
The 925-1000 site is having server issues, now in the process of switching to a new server - the marks section seems to be back up, hopefully the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] ~Cheryl
Looks like a slapjack (sap) rather than a billy club... ~Cheryl
Heh, nice that it's intact - anytime I pick up some little charm or other small object with a hole in it, I look to see if it's a Stanhope... ~Cheryl
It's almost certainly satin spar, and a souvenir of Niagara Falls, missing its Stanhope viewer... ~Cheryl
It's a typical 'antique' style Dutch piece from the late 19th century, with a mix of official marks and pseudo-marks, which were intended to...
Don't usually comment on Russian or supposedly Russian silver, because I'm not at all qualified in the area and very few people are - but this...
Driving into Orlando for the first time in 1971, was assaulted by the monstrosity below - though only from the waist up, it was 30' tall, one...
Don't know about eBay sales, but artist Jack White, needing money when the Texas economy tanked in the '80s, sold quickly done paintings in mall...
Don - that is a wonderful snuff box! Nuff - regarding the brooch in post #3560, can remember similar 'free-form' jewelry with bezel-set...
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