Iran... think 1979 hostage chrisis and apparently permanent severing of diplomatic ties. Scumbag Ayatolahs factor in too; their treatment of...
Same old glitch. NICE inkwell, btw.
...and if you're me, you're seeing a bag of hopefully silverplate walk off with someone else because you got there a minute too late.(sigh) I...
I figured that's what it was, or something similar. I'm betting this was used for a long time, or at least in the building for a long time,...
...but not if you're putting it on eBay.(LOL) Proper Persian is on the Forbidden list.
All I can see are some teenaged boys finding Grandpa's snuff bottle and going "heh heh heh. Naked lady."
Someone putting a picture in the locket. Magnifying glasses don't work well when the object is right up against the glass. It takes a little...
Sheherezade? Indo-Persian plate and I'd guess 20th century. Beyond that dunno.
YAY! Not surprised it went back home. The Chinese like things made in the Chinese taste that were made either for home use ,or exported and never...
And at 56 her boobs would not be at that angle! (LOL)
I was thinking a little earlier, but not much and with a)oak and b) something made for a church it's hard to nail it down firmly. Ecclesiastical...
The setting is regular metal, so odds are the stones are glass.
I'd hope I would have, but might not. Then again even cheap stainless has marks on the back, which ought to have been a clue.
That second mark looks like a design number. Plumb gold means bang on 10k ... 41.7% gold if memory serves. Gold standards allow a little leeway,...
It could be Mexican easily enough, and if it's really old that wouldn't be marked either.
I think it's a mix of watercolor and ink too.
I'm in! I was owned from cats since birth (and wouldn't mind it happening again) and love the owl too.
At least one of us is turning a buck!
Odds are this held a lock of someone's hair; the embroidered bit was added later. Maybe the hair was from an ex-girlfriend!
I thought candle holders right off. They look like ink bottles, but an unglazed interior means they didn't hold liquids.
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