Welcome, Antonio. Many of us arrived here by following our interests. :)
A disordered mind. Bead salad, nothing to do with trade beads.
Rialto Bridge, I think.
The take home message is that pimples should never appear on a cameo cut from a solid piece of material.
Glad to see he's not Gorgge anymore. :)
I don't know why, but even as I typed that I had a feeling you were, Maybe because of your ability to see handwriting with a different slant....
'Lava' is a really vexed topic, as I say on my site. The only ones I really trust to be entirely hand carved (not precluding the use of hand held...
Downright classy compared to this. Coral Bugs Bunny Pendant 18K Yellow Gold Charm xc good luck for Necklace [IMG]
The one in 'From a Thorn'. I'm seeing it as starting with no introductory stroke but a swishy tail.
All relate to attracting good luck, warding off the evil eye. Italian mano fico & cornicello (little horn):...
She wouldn't need to invent. Style of the time was more decorative than we're used to. Be glad she didn't use: [IMG] Hers is more copperplate:...
We already made fun of these on a different thread, but they are being sold as jade:...
Reexamining, my eyes can see it as 'From a Thorn'.
I suspect Cecilia wrote out her motto lightly in pencil, then followed that, so the script would be her own schoolgirl hand.
So if Cecilia was the embroiderer, she was only 11/12 at the time. I see it as July 4th. Still trying to noodle out whether or not the rhyme...
My dad was a model maker for Fisher Body. How come I never heard of this? Oh yeah, I'm a girl. :astronaut:
Using sabre's bookmark as guide, would say 'if(?)' is an ampersand.
Maybe an allusion to Napoleon. He liked this image of himself, Jacques-Louis David did 2 versions: [IMG] [ATTACH]...
Yes, that's it.:happy:
I have the brooch to start a parure: [ATTACH]
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