That look only works if you are very young and very buff. (and likely gay, since I'm not seeing straight females finding it attractive.)
That extender is a dead giveaway. Sometimes I look anyway for a silver mark if it looks good otherwise, but never hold out much hope. Toggles...
It came around again in the 1960s right before our Bicentennial, but this is too old and too well done. 70s stuff tended to be tat, at least the...
Foiled glass is essentially a rhinestone. The screw threads are a leftover from the old days . A few good earrings are still made this way, but...
I've never seen blue quartz before; generally when it's an odd color, it's art glass marketed as 'quartz".
It's kept its color really well if it was done in 1778. There was a big fashion for "Colonial' design in the USA in the 1920s. If it were...
I'd wear that dressing robe - throw it over a black dress and out the door it goes. That Prince Charlie was designed, I'll bet, to be worn with a...
Screw-threaded backs anyway. Screwbacks are generally non-pierced earrings. Apatite comes in that color but it's soft. The only thing I know...
I don't think quartz comes in blue. Pink yes, but not blue. Natural blue topaz is a much lighter color and fairly rare. Kyanite maybe...?
The Gorn - only Jim Kirk had the good stuff . Diamonds are a Captain's best friend!
The blue beads are pretty awesome. The old stringing probably needed replacing anyway; cotton literally rots eventually.
Oh dear. I'd imagine the original doesn't involve ladies of purchaseable virtue.
You need to know what you're looking at. I've shelled out at garage sales before, but only when I knew what something was and either just wanted...
Looks good.
I loved that wood bead bag, but you'll have to guard the Whiting & Davis one from Bear. Apparently "thou shalt not covet they neighbor's donkey,...
It all gets traded around. A North African design motif was taken into the American Southwest by Spanish traders/settlers/conquistadors, and the...
Generally, later printings are a disappointment unless they have desirable illustrations or something. If you had FDR's copy with his bookplate,...
It's still a nice decorator item, and even machine-made fabrics can be worth something. That said... particle...
Thirded, fourthed, or whatever. Most "antique" malls now sell many things besides antiques. They'll have soap vendors, handmade kid clothes,...
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