Bee or fly, not a scarab beetle.
I have no decisive conclusion about what the stone is, but if it is as pink as it looks in the last photo, had to wonder if it's tourmaline. I'm...
This thread is from before my time. I found it very interesting & would not have seen it if Msalicia had not revived it. Why do people get so...
Ah. Thank you. Do they provide a stone you use for this?
Size looks more suitable for cigarettes. And it would only be asking for trouble to strike a match just an inch or two away from a bunch of...
Matches? Or cigarettes? Looks like a striker area under lid.
So glass is the softest material it measures. You could not successfully test something like alabaster. I have no idea why glass does not always...
In the beginning there was quartz. Macrocrystalline quartz. Amethyst (purple), citrine (yellow), rose quartz (pink), rock crystal (colorless)....
You still have time to edit your premature post. Edit, then Other Choices (think that's what it's called) & you can add photos, as long as files...
Sometimes it is solid. Don't know how rare/common unveined specimens are. [IMG] https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/230969
Oh, usually you do restring them. You don't necessarily want all of them for your project & the cord they come on is usually not strong enough to...
The first one is also a Halley's comet type of design, & construction, with those little coils of wire, looks right for the time. The second one...
Just looked at the whole picture: Get in line!
Think my idiomatic French is insufficient for the other one. 'beau blond' is a good looking (male) blond. Think first bit is something like...
'In line' & 'Something (Sniffing?) forbidden'. Correction below.
I'm surprised that with that nice sterling clasp that has the additional safety catch the beads were not knotted. Afraid that despite the...
These cameos originated in W. Germany & seem to be the most reproduced design of all time. Suspect they are still being made. Widely exported,...
Think there is the influence of the 1910 appearance of Halley's comet here....
Some poor soul, probably in India, did the drilling, not the person who did the stringing. The beads are sold by the strand. Agree with AJ that...
I figured there had to be some exceptions. That one is a different sort of concoction than the vintage ones, which are far less imaginative. [IMG]
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