I have seen them used exactly this way to hold glass beads being sold by the strand in a bead shop.
As long as it doesn't self-immmolate!
The mechanism, in its primitive way, reminds me of the ice cream scoops with the lever you depress to have a blade swivel around & scrape the ice...
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My guess was that the horseman is a message rider & the motto just relates to the arrival of a message. The overall shape is consistent with late...
What a curious piece this is. The subject matter & way the color layers of the shell have been used to put the white as the background are very...
Hindsight is always 20/20. You could have had Accanito put the year of making under his name. Bet you got lots of oohs & ahhs when you wore it...
What does Emma think of it? Did you know they were going to make her in roses bedight? Accanito made good use of the natural undulation of the...
Is the intaglio on the front surface or is it reverse carved/intaglio? Does appear to have some age, but not antique yet, I suspect. Yes,...
And an actual Rebecca at the Well: [IMG]
Definitely a goat: [IMG]
@wenna Here's one in conch shell with a whopping great bird in it, another atypical touch: [IMG]
Depends on gender as well as species. :)
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