Pottery of some type? Heavy/light; hollow/solid; etc.? Shaped more like a tortoise but sellers probably not fussy about terminology & likely to...
Except for big metal scarab paperweights, that sort of thing, they always seem to be either drilled through, or partially, like yours, even when...
Until I took in the small size, was thinking gardening tool. A dibble & ?
Is that anything like Struwwelpeter?
The thing is that multiple registration attempts using different user IDs all coming from the same IP address is characteristic of fraudulent...
[IMG] [IMG] The second one is the type of thing I have been trying to encourage people to resist unless very cheap & really calls to you. Or...
Something an apothecary would have used, although not entirely sure how? Takes a while for photos to load:...
ANTIQUE (1800's), ENGRAVED 18K SOLID GOLD, LARGE, ANGLE SKIN CAMEO RING [IMG] [IMG][IMG] Always wondered what 'angle skin' looked like.
The ladies are almost always in garb from a century earlier than the one when the cameos were cut. They strike me as the fantasies of Neapolitan...
I never see it anymore, but in the past would see people selling a bunch of odds & ends as a 'junk drawer lot'. Maybe now 'junque' to chime with...
Without knowing how the story ends, & with such a miserable review...
Or maybe the other way up & £7? Jivvy has been hard at work on Louis Zoellner, poor thing.
Think we can say there is no 'perhaps' about it. If I were an Olympian goddess, I'd rather have Jell-o's pudding to keep me going. But, please,...
These country scenes are never topnotch in execution, but interest me because I have never seen any two identical ones. The majority of cameo...
Substituting 'seahorse' for 'key':...
Using 'plastic sewing button key embedded' got me this, but 'this' got no further info:...
That was it. We've had so many cameo-related threads in the last week or so, I lose track of what I saw where. :)
[IMG] Described as Small Heubach Figurine "Wearing Mommy's Shoes"
Not sure how helpful this is, but: http://www.collector-antiquities.com/real-or-fake/fake-egyptian/fake-scarabs.html
My first thought too, but not in that precarious standing position. Too much risk of falling off if the piano shawl got moved at all.
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