Regerts either. I'd have bagged those so fast....
I was thinking latticino too; folks here in Murrica are more likely to know that term.
Might as well list them; jade always finds a buyer! As for leading people astray.... we jewelry people are always being accused of that....
Yep. The rhinestones alone said Modern, but the back says it's recent too.
Yep. I'll get it into the mail some time in the next few days. It's already packed.
Tag, yard, and garage sales are all regional names for the same thing. Pretty much the same as a boot sale. Vide Garnier if you're French....
I rolled a die, suitably vintage, and the winner is... @Renee Yancy ! Message me your mailing address and I'll send it off!
I think the round wooden box is a tobacco caddy or similar, or was intended that way.
I think it's hit or miss no matter where you are. I usually find better stuff in higher end towns, but have found a few blinding bargains at...
The wild part was most of my jewelry came from ONE tag sale. I think I must have been the first person into the jewlelry pile. $38 for a good...
That setting rocks. The cameo carver... more like rocks in the head.
Yesterday's goodie pile. The plastic bag has a Laguna necklace I spent last night stringing and a matching bracelet. The rest of the first image...
The brass clockworks look like a classic design (could have been in constant production), but the rest of the metal looks 1950s or later. So does...
They were in use by the 30s though; all those calibre-cut sapphires and rubies in Deco jewelry were synthetic for the most part.
Unless it's Le Havre - a French seaport.
I'd have figured it for Italian with those flowers painted on, but the two must have been trading design influences since the Roman Empire.
I'd say odds on lab grown. They've been making them since the 1920s and they wre common in the Deco era. It's an 18k setting, so the real deal...
The Egyptian decoration fad has come around at least two times that I can think of in the 20th Century. There may have been more, and heavens...
Auto-incorrect strikes again!
Some of the rank and file are given a "special" rate - peanuts. Not even an dollar an hour. The place runs like a for-profit, so the $$$ is...
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