I'd still say later rather than earlier; the coloring of the flowers and leaves are both newer too. They've been seriously beat up either way,...
Late 20th century Chinese. The raised cloisonne flowers are pretty definitive.
As far as I know Judas wasn't married. (Jesus definitely wasn't, Hollywood movies and fictional books aside.) The only one who I know was married...
Seconded. (LOL)
You may not have been around here long enough to know what a lot of us think of Brasso. There are no polite terms. The short answer is : N. O. to...
Giving the British monarchy the "bum" 's rush?
It's the motto of the Howard family, or almost, if that's any help. Sinvicta should be "invicta". The design is right. It's a dead match for a...
Try 100%. I've never seen anything but glass glued into similar earrings, unless it was plastic.
Same here. I still have a thick stack in the trunk of my car and have been thinking of breaking some out. It still hasn't gone away, just...
If it likes magnets, I'd think cast iron. My late dad used to make all sorts of machine parts out of it. I'd not be surprised if they cast some...
Not sure if I could have pulled the trigger at that price point either, but I'd have sure wanted to.
That's happened to be before too. Swapping information. Swapping stuff around too. I've even been known to take something off of the shelf and...
Gold-filled is usually 12kgf . Without XRF, I scrape/acid test for both 10 and 14k. If the scrape holds up to the 10 and disappears under 14,...
Gotta love paste wax. It's a bit of a pain, but it's far better than that crap in the spray can.
Thomas Johnson might well have mentioned it in a video somehwere. He's a professional furniture restorer who mainly works on real antiques and I...
No need; she just has to have sold something one time too many.
I think I saw some of its friends today, but alas they were all just milk glass. Left them where I found them.
The pyramid makes me wonder, but the construction says American Southwest.
You'll have to beat my buddy Uwe and my pastor to it. One of them will clap hands on first and yell dibs.(LOL)
Like hat pins, but short. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/assorted-antique-vintage-stick-pins-and-brooch-lo-1304-c-76d48f2b0b
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