I've seen pictures of nuns in full habit wearing rosaries that big, but nobody else.
Or similar. I'd throw a cord on him and wear him as a pendant. He's missing his donkey friend though.
Looks like the crowning of Queen Hadassah/Esther - I went looking, and my first impression matches with the artist's background. He painted...
Well, yeah!
Loupe shots aren't all that much fun. I use a prehistoric 10x rug or stamp magnifier. It folds up and unfolded turns into a lens on a stand....
IOW, his main audience will be silversmiths and silver collectors.
A cojoined P and X is an ancient symbol for Christ. Took this heathen Baptist about two seconds to read those tea leaves. :p Or tesserae. Dunno...
Lucky stiff. Saw some today when I was in an antique store selling them a trunk full of stuff. Didn't even ask.(LOL)
Songs to dredge out of childhood memories. I think I saw The Way We Were on TV once. A piece of it anyway.
I've seen similar somewhere too.
Probably worse than conducting services here in Chaucerian English. We 'Murricans often don't even understand current usage and need translations...
Yup. Those post-WWII pinhead diamond rings were used to propose many a marriage that lasted 50 years plus. It's not the ring that matters.
If you like it and intend to use it, go for it. If you're reselling, that carving has been hard to move for a while now.
Get out the Barry White LPs and party is ON!
Failing that, take her hunting in a good antique store. Crazy stuff shows up there, and if nothing else you can get some ideas.
Definitely mounted over something else. It's needlepoint, but done with cotton embroidery floss instead of wool. Looks like anyway. It's possible...
No idea. There are age marks on the back, but not the front. it doesn't read as old to me, but I've been fooled before.
Those bendy ones are still used sometimes. They're something a jewelery-maker can knock out on his/her own, and if you don't have access to...
Seconded. If you can't triple up at least, it's not worth the effort. The fees are too high.
Probably so. I'm told Russian priests no longer read Slavonic, and I bet a lot of things are presumed lost as a result. (they don't know enough...
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