What I would like to see is the appraisal you talk about. Is it also a photo?
Should be a market for this one: [ATTACH]
I did: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/art-deco-alabaster-nude.22189/#post-298811
On the other hand, search for Stiaccini, with no other qualifiers or filters, & you get a deluge of entries for sales of his sculptures and lamps....
'Sarchi' is an exceedingly uncommon name. Once you eliminate Costa Rica & Africa from search results, there's this one:...
Sarchi & Umberto Stiaccini seem to have been in pretty much the same business, in Florence, in overlapping if not the same time. Both produced...
And far from antique. Possibly vintage.
We had another one of these, souvenir of some other part of Greece, a while back. Yes, for holding papers together on a desk.
You did just fine, especially for a first time post. With so many people now using their phone to take photos, most first timers have trouble...
You can do the only thing we can do: look for others like it that have been for sale, see if they sold & for how much. You might be able to find...
Welcome, Debbie & Squirrel #2. I've punched up your photo a bit so we have a better idea of color & texture: [ATTACH] Serpentine, maybe.
Maybe we'd do better to count the exceptions.
[IMG] Available now for $169.99.
I expect you have only to look. :)
The tiny clips on the ivory colored fan shaped earrings are similar to ones I remember from 60s. If earrings date to then, they would still fall...
[ATTACH] Natural material I think. But some chance bone. Can you get a photo that picks up grain/striations more clearly?
For more of the type:...
They're lovely. Would not be considered 'fine' jewellery, but much nicer & more interesting than what I usually think of as 'costume' jewellery....
I believe gold doublé means extra heavy plate, but the person who knows for sure is @kyratango
Oh, my mother was 'different' all right.
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