Chest doesn't seal, so nothing would stay sterile for long.
I have Walter Schurmann, Gemstones of the World, translated from the German, 1977. I have a couple of others, but they seem to draw heavily on...
Pre-Raphaelite was my immediate thought too, with a touch of tarot card & the Unicorn Tapestries. But Heaven help us, it looks like Ponytail Girl...
How would that work? Or do you put the metal bin in the chest after boiling, steaming, whatever? Underside of wooden lid is unprotected.
A very dear English friend I will probably never meet. She knows about Schmoll because I told her & she told me she planned to use the info in...
Agate is really a word for certain formations of chalcedony. It is not a separate mineral. My gem book says natural carnelian has a cloudy...
Maybe a shoemaker's last rather than shoe trees?
Ditto. Uh huh.
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This is nonsense. It is not a shield & there is no reason the 'dent' would become more worn than any of the rest of it. If I could account for...
Since this signature had gone completely unnoticed until I started to collect examples, & completely undeciphered until @Jivvy (we miss you!)...
I was going to suggest a reticule. See sellers are calling them reticule purses.
My gut feeling is that this was made deliberately crudely to give the impression of great age in the mistaken belief that rings couldn't be made...
Not quite sure what this means but it looks to me like the ring band was shaped to accommodate the dent that was already in the matrix, not like...
They are all shield shaped, which the one you are considering is not. This is an important difference.
@antidiem If it had been made by this method, would it have needed that seam at the bottom of the shank?
As I said, this is really out of my lane, although tangentially connected to the sort of things I know more about. Age seller gives puts it to...
A place to put food waste until you could take it out to the compost pile?
I was wondering how it could get dinged in a way that would dent the top edge & push the bottom edge out of line.
Too large. :(
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