If the reserve was that high and above the estimate, it makes you wonder why the auction house would take the job. Maybe in hopes they were wrong?
Rock solid safe as long as you don't cut into them. As long the asbestos is sealed up it's not going anywhere. Just don't slice into the pads...
Your mystery, eh? You have to wonder if a bird lover isn't using it for a perch somewhere.
It's messy enough, and the stones are cool enough, but the design looked funny to me too... which is why I was asking.
I'll have to double check. The backs looked too clean. Maybe somebody screwed up and didn't blob on the solder?
Not entirely, but those piecrust settings made me wonder, and the back is a little neat for them.
I still need to check them. Just tested the ring - straight up glass.
The cuff looks like someone bent a kilt pin, but the maker's mark...???? It looks like HH in a circle with the Hs overlapped. It's pretty bitty....
I took a second look at the pictures and .. the seller must have set a reserve above the high estimate. My jewel hound brain went...
Found these in an odd place. I'm assuming made in Austria until told otherwise. The picture of the back got blurry on me, but those piecrust...
The back sort of smells like D&E ... kind of. Lots of globby solder. But the construction looks like Austrian pretender from the front. I don't...
No problem; we're used to Dutch around here. :D:p Is the butterfly meant to come off or am I imagining things?
I haven't bothered testing yet; they could be garnet, glass or a mix. The Czechs did that early and often.
The glove ring is on my thumb, btw. It has to be a size 11 or better.
Not the time of year to use it, but for free it's for me! Some past weeks' goodies. Finally got around to uploading the images and resizing....
No magic involved, unless it's the sort indistinguishable from technology.
I ghost the haunted house shows. I already know where I'm going. Crazy Train rocks, and rocks hard.
Follow the money and shake it all about?
DANG I think the OP found the goods! I'd say the outside was never plated too. It would have the Sterling mark if made for export. Whoever was...
Meanwhile, I bought my teenaged niece an Ozzfest t-shirt. The bands on the shirt use some imagery your buddy's mother wouldn't have liked, but...
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