I still have the feeling it is a lacquered wood/paper product.
Our threads often wander, but usually not to anthropophagy! The nouvelle nouvelle cuisine?
Maybe ask that it be added to the jewellery reference thread that Davey keeps for us?
I have a handful of ivory cameos & an ivory plaque that has appeared in these pages many times. I think of my cameos more as little sculptures...
Tell 'em it's mom's bones. Cremation is such a waste, don't you think?
Wonder if pawn shops are considered essential at this time. Seems to me they are.
You're definitely in the right place to talk vintage & antique jewellery. If you have any cameos, I'm your avatar.
It at least seems pronounceable if it's Le Femuarlin, but that's just as fruitless. Google only has 1 suggestion in connection with a glass maker...
I have never understood how destroying vintage & antique ivory does anything to protect elephants. If anything, making it rarer can only make it...
If the back of the pendant is also somewhat concave, I'm all in for bone there. The beads may be artificial, can't tell, but I see no hint of...
To answer other questions: 'resin' is a polite word for some unidentified polymer, aka plastic; older resins are heavier than modern hard plastic,...
I was going to say that there are places where the gold has worn away & white metal shows through, but on closer inspection, those places seem to...
In my world it's because it belonged to Grandma, without considering possibilities: G'ma may have acquired late in life, so not that old; G'ma did...
Is it hollow?
The other gold bits & bobs were represented as 9K, but Chris does not look it &, when I tested, he is slightly magnetic. There is something...
I'm just sticking this here because chatelaines came up & I did not want to start a separate thread....
Or the map on lower right: [IMG]
It's not, should be with metal stuff. But you can see we really aren't that fussy & answer anyway.
The first one looks too clean & shiny, so suspect it was used in battle reenactments.
I'm hesitant because I would not be able to attach the ends to the clasp in a way I like as much as I do as is. I do worry they'll snap at the...
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