I went looking and they do sometimes use a mark like that. I'd guess real until proven otherwise. It's just not the standard one.
Is it signed? Avery marks their pieces with a candelarbra mark and the JA initials. Dillards sold yours but I can't see the mark on that one...
The vase looks kindasorta like a Catawba pottery piece I found recently. The shape is right anyway.
If she liked them, she liked them. I wouldn't pay the $5 each for any of them, but I'll shell out for beading supplies. My mother would pitch...
Love the cows/water buffalo/moo-ing things.
THank heavens for the junk box!
Thirded or something-thed. Bohemian, late 19th century.
Some sort of bullion cording anyway.
Pitiful, but that's what happened to brown wood.
They make/made some nice pieces, just not worth what they originally charged. Add bitty inexpensive diamonds and charge a 'mint' and people will...
I'd have run off with the Apollo 13 plate too. My dad was one of the engineers working on the space suit, and Royal Copenhagen for a buck? Hard...
Certainly possible. These aren't high-dollar beads.
Chinese turquoise is my guess - the stabilised chalk variety maybe. The expensive stones wouldn't have costume findings, and it looks coated somehow.
I might just. It's not like I've ever used it.
AAMOF I think I do have of those! Sure looks familiar.
There's a square springform hiding in my basement; is that the one you meant? Went out at Way Too Darned Early this morning and went to a...
I've found oddments here before; Great-great grandma brought it with her when the family emigrated, and the great-grandkinds forgot what it was or...
Well, two years ago someone would have bought it...(LOL) Maybe $50-$150 depending. Now it's likely to land in the Free pile.
Definitely 20th century factory made. About two years ago this would have sold for good money. Now...not so much.
Maybe it was converted because the pendant bail broke and someone made it a pin since they had to fix it anyway. Could be a 100+ year-old repair....
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