Anywhere. Unless your photos are really misrepresenting it, it is not ivory. Not that it matters, but how do you know this? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I don't know, but his left hand is on backwards.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Turn of the 20th century, as kyratango has already surmised a particularly light section of helmet shell rather than the more...
I was going to speculate that maybe the bag had once been home to a cameo en habillé (one of those ones where the figure herself is wearing...
???!!! Was it lit? Did you find this somewhere as a suggested way to test for ivory? Genuine ivory is identifiable through visual examination;...
Still a bit sleepy & read it as They used to wear them in Paris. :)
If it were not so clearly not from there, I would have guessed Egyptian; their marks are punched in rectangles.
I didn't quite know what an etrog looks like either, so of course had a look. Shapes & sizes seem quite variable, & found this really...
Would think it's a bit shallow for a scoop, not to mention heavy, if it's plaster. Is it heavy for size? Genuine nautilus shells have been used...
Chalk that up to halogen lighting in retail & low wattage whatevers in thrift.
If this is made the way I think it is, have seen that safety mechanism on late Victorian pieces. I have one that works that way; definitely don't...
I'm going to come in on the side of moss agate, not from the hirsuteness argument, on the grounds of color. The way coral & conch shell cameos...
And if you were making any pretense of being anybody, you had a respectable library.
Probably Camden Athletic Club.
With Fig's help we got the inscription worked out & were able to do some biographical research, because he was very prominent in his day. Then I...
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Plaster cast of a nautilus painted to vaguely look like ammolite? [IMG]
It's in the shape of a nautilus shell.
Alamy has got hold of it:...
Since it looks like it was bought, maybe not for the first time, in 1783, that's a fair guess. The list of available copies of the Buchotte book...
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