If you look up sigilography, it will not surprise you that it is signed. :)
I have one quite like it that I love a lot. The cameo is similarly broken, but someone had a custom setting made for it that covers the back &...
Deliberating it with myself, the conclusion is, probably not. But depends on how big a deal it is to go there, what you would have to give up...
It is most likely lab grown. Lab corundum has been on the market for 100+ years. Crystals grown now are huge. Worth more than glass; far less...
The overall shape, material & imagery would add up to a cultural ID for someone who really knows this stuff, which isn't me. Pre-Islamic,...
A vale of tears?
Nancy?
Wadjet, dove of the Holy Spirit + ?
There's no reason to think the stone elements are really glass. These tumbled bits of quartz are not expensive. Sizes & shapes so irregular, not...
It's a favorite of mine too. All allegorical: passionate love; faithful love; the love that got away.
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I use mine as an end table. Lamp & phone on it, phone directories (now approaching antique) & unabridged dictionary below. If the shelf...
I have something generally similar, except the ends are more like panels than spindles & they support a book rack. As far as I know, they come...
Maybe it's because Halloween is coming, but for some reason he reminds me of Korob from Star Trek episode Catspaw: [IMG]
You have to wonder if someone went at it with scouring powder, poor thing. :(
A rather exuberant Ceres/Demeter it is: https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/olympian-gods/ceres-demeter Pose is similar to this rather...
Think it was a big deal to have a bishop come visit. Unless Trappist abbots have much snazzier wardrobes than I ever would have imagined.
The Worthpoint one looks like a poor knockoff of Daveac's, although, in the absence of size info, they both look like soap dishes to me.
Unless he's wearing a zucchetto, I don't think he's a father. :D
When something says 'Czech', I automatically think glass, but I can't make that out here & the way it is strung looks like inexpensive 'ethnic'...
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