You know your brooch is marked on the front as well as the back. Have seen this again & again, no concern that they had to squash one of the...
Any day now someone will write & ask if we have Prince Albert in a can. The mild attempt at getting the name & address of someone who might have...
Knew you'd be back. :) Took me a little looking at the signature this way & that, but realized it could be Santini pretty quickly. After that...
No, I'm afraid it's no help for dating. They had a system of date letters, & the national mark changed from a cat to a lotus blossom in 1946, but...
I remember that show: Eliza with a three.
We were. And yikes! Just never a good idea.
Not sure how it comes to look like a palm tree, but probably the 800 silver mark, which looks like a Greek upper case lambda followed by 1 or 2...
They were also all the rage when the traveling King Tut exhibition was making the rounds in the 1960s & again in the 70s, not to mention as...
While I think Incolay, the original company's products, is underappreciated. As someone who loves cameos/engraved gems, I'm pleased to have a...
@gregsglass might know someone.
You've got to admit 'this person' takes good photos Too bad not dealing honestly with us.
She's similar to 'Czech glass Psyche': https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-67#post-562020 Will have to...
This one, judging by what I see on eBay. Had not seen one like the hunting scene before. As I said, my first reaction was that it had to be...
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A lot of stove knobs are black Bakelite too.
Dirt caught in tiny irregularities in the surface. Here's the back: [IMG] A resin one would probably have been done better.
Good find. Probably made in Germany, so I'm thinking the order of the initials is more likely to be WJ. Definitely contemporary ultrasonically cut.
Arabic reads from right to left, like Hebrew, so bound books are the right way up when the side that opens is on the left, i.e., you're showing it...
The faux marbre seems to be the most popular, I run into it at every turn. https://www.lonestartradingcompany.com/romanchariot.html
'The material is not ivory but a compound of marble, alabaster and resin that was poured into a mold and then hand-finished. Amilcare Santini was...
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