i.e. a lot of my neighbors! When Israel declared its existence again, the Moroccan government kicked most of their Jews out. Weird and idiotic...
Thanks for rescuing those. How they got left in Morocco I haven't the foggiest.
The one I bought I knew was recent, but I wanted to find out whodunnit and the price was right.
Those are very modern sterling earrings of ...nowhere I'd worry about. They're a standard design. The stones want to be irradiated topaz, but...
They copy the older styles and make it decently. The one that had me confused for a while is Madewell, an upscale brand owned by J Crew. It's...
The ones with paint everwhere in older designs can be a problem. The white pieces are fine, even the old ones.
In the USA Desert Rose by Franciscan has been in production since forever. So is Pfaltzgraff's Yorktown pattern. The latter is heavy stoneware...
May have been a dealer's hoard.
One or two hungry two-stone kitties might have his number. They take down deer.
Premier Designs is one of those makers on my list to throw straight into a Donate jar. It's not worth much any more. Chico's is another...
Listen to a Fisher cat too. Those things ... no thanks, but I'll cheerfully take the wild kitties. Wild kitties eat squirrels, chipmunks and...
We need to introduce your lurcher to a few bobcats. Or may we don't if you want to keep the doggo for a bit.
Also submerging kills rhinestones or dissolves the glue holding them in. The acid takes off corrosion, but be aware that the original finishe...
And made in China. (sigh)
Just you wait.... Computer sellers get to use it now too. If you haven't been on in a while, you may be forced into it willy nilly and it will...
Very cool. The Hamsa threw me for a second; the five-pointed star was a what-the-???? , and then I realized it was Islamic instead of the Jewish...
I bought one over the summer, but it was relatively huge. Probably for a carving knife rather than a place setting knife. The seller didn't look...
Now that was a dodgy jar! Looks like you won.
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned..." ....but only because you beat me and a bunch of others to it. That's a NICE pen!
There's zero Victorian about that setting, except that it's everything all the time. The lapis is wrong too; it has pyrite in it. The older style...
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