Preferably from a state with a high cost of living, so you can move to a state with a lower one and a lower risk of weather disasters.
The beads look like potch opal or opal matrix, moonstone, or maybe really good opalite glass. Maybe a mix. Smart money is on lower grade...
This was never intended to fake anyone out. It's modern with a modern mark, and sold just for "pretty".
It looks much happier now. And that Javanese cross... the seller blew it there! I'd love to find some of those "marcasites" too!
I have a zero co-pay for drugs in the plan, but I qualify for government-based insurance based on disability/earnings level. But... lots of...
Or a retired Congresscritter with gold-plated insurance, a pension with an automatic COLA increase, AND a picker. Too much to ask though - who'd...
An SF/Fantasy theme auction would be better than general sale. If there's one at a Comicon, bonus!
On the other hand, filling a house with it is currently cheap and it's better quality than flatpack!
I'd take that payment to haul it to the thrift... or the trash.
Sounds like you found one my grandfather "fixed".(LOL)
Victorian all right. A real expert will jump in, but the table looks to be 1870s with a replaced top. The original was generally marble and...
So hope we all!
Amen.
That's still better than I do hitting six in one week here. Our petrol prices are headed up too.
Sunstone? The real stuff?
For a whole pound for real gold, there's no arguing. There's just putting it in your pocket and hustling it out the door!
Egg yolk maybe. Butterscotch. They started life bright yellow, but oxidised to what we see now.
Looks to be an 1890s parlor table of some sort. It still has its glass marble feet too! Sweet. Looks like it needs a good waxing and then right...
I usually just dunk the q-tip in water, squeeze out extras, and then dunk in the baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and rub. Wouldn't even need to...
It looks like the pearl in your pin is a replacement; it fits well enough but not the way it was supposed to. I'd have bought that poor thistle...
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