I love the belt! The pearls all look like Chinese freshwaters.
That card has to be a rarity. Welcome to the nuthouse... forum, that's it. Forum. Dare we hope some of those almuminum trunks survived too?
Friday morning's goodies. Went to an estate sale that I knew wouldn't be great, but I know the seller. When she gets jewelry she has it at a...
Not really sure. BTW - I have a mug here that says One Cat Short of Crazy. I take umbrage at that statement since I haven't been normal since...
I'm betting we'd have gotten along. DANG that dude had some bakelite.
Which explains why y'all got more of the cool stuff than we did, at least in some areas.
Headed that way for sure.
The penny drops! Canada imported a lot of things from the UK instead of buying from south of the Border. Y'all got Dinky toys and Triang stuff...
Perfect size for seed beads then. Not many, but some.
Influenza epidemic maybe? They needed tons more nurses and nursing assistant than they had.
The three crowns mark means Sweden. The dolphins mean water (Navy?) most likely, so Swedish Navy-related stuff? Swedish coast guard, fishing...
The pin stem looks like straight gold; the rest looks like gold-filled from the era. So...? The back also looks straight Victorian but the front...
I'd test the cherries. I generally use baking soda; it sometimes works on the red where others fail. Dampen a cotton swab and dunk in baking...
Certainly possible. White ware was shipped all over the place for hobbyist painters to decorate. Some wares would have been best off left white,...
I"m in! There be toys here!
I'd have loose beads in them. But it could be that they were cool looking and people wanted something cool and old on a random shelf. They'd be...
That isn't bakelite if it leaves red on the q-tip.
Red doesn't always test. Do they feel relatively heavy? I don't think they're bakelite, but I could be wrong. The beads in places look more like...
Just thinking, at Burning Man, that outfit (makeup and all) wouldn't even merit a second glance.
...and make shard jewelry out of the plate!
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