They used gold but not much. Some gemstone folks call opals with little to no fire "potch" opal or opal matrix. It comes in all sorts of colors.
They looked kind of like glass and kind of not. The glaze on ceramics is essentially glass, so ceramic fits.
The spacers/caps are metal. The others...????
It does make me wonder. The necklace itself might be fooling me of course.
I'd have figured it for 1980s costume jewelry right off the bat, but I used to look at a LOT of jewelry. A small child will think it's a treasure.
I'd think the sterling one is more Deco-inspired than Deco, but it has a sport/thumb ring. Those mostly vanished after WWII.
Drat. Still nice beads though.
Fat lava is one of those "I know it when I see it" things. The OP's doesn't look like a lava glaze.
Oddly, I'd bet that neon Mary, St Anne and Jesus statue would have made the original Spanish churchgoers quite happy. Brightly colored art was a...
I have a bad feeling the turquoise-looking beads are all glass. Pretty glass, but glass. The pearls are pearls - dyed Chinese freshwaters. It's...
I use good old sodium bicarbonate and a damp q-tip or similar; unlike a lot of chemicals it sometimes works on red bakelite. If you're getting a...
Books go out of date before they're published, at least in regard to prices. Websites are a lot more dynamic.
Today I went to the Ill Will and the ReStore and found a way to waste time and gasoline. The ReStore was putting out oyster forks, but all plated....
Now that's old. I watched a youtuber tonight get all excited about "vintage t-shirts" from the 1990s.
I'll eat anything not trying to eat me first. Even Jell-0, although that's somewhat suspect.
The adzuki bean one looks good to me, as do matcha, taro, sweet potato, etc. Not too sure about the wasabi.
I think you nailed it. I found servingware today that kinda-sorta looked like silver. It was all restaurant silverplate from...taiwan and...
Welcome! My Youtube handle is Original Nethead, so we match. (mine refers to a time before the graphic interface and ARPANET was still a thing.)
I bow to superior knowledge.
The glass dangle is off of an earring. I agree with the very 60s mustard seed.
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