Hello, Sam. Since netsuke are a Japanese art form, I would expect the language to be Japanese, even if the piece is a copy made in China. Your...
It's definitely nacre, not some artificial pearl simulant. The question is whether it is an actual single detached pearl, or been made to look...
Finding a suggestion, unconfirmed, that the mark indicates the collective where made.
Everything's better with pearls, IMO.
Good observation & good evidence that what Christie's sold was indeed wax & they were not bamboozled by one of these extremely good replicas....
This is confusing. I thought the family name was Munra. It is Munras.
Looks like a man's wedding band, although it would be odd to engrave just the groom's initials inside.
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I'm pretty confident it's stone. What I suspect about the metal is that the ring shank is low grade gold; the innermost bezel is some kind of...
A search for 'Henry Alken fox hunting' will get you going.
Henry Allen drew it. Sorry - Alken https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/03351/henry-alken/fox-hunting
Somehow, I got taken past these posts when I opened this thread before, so only seeing now. Yes, what you circled is what I meant too. You have...
This, on the other hand, looks like conch shell [IMG] is described as Victorian Pink Stone Cameo with 9 kt solid Gold setting US $95.00 and is...
What's written just under the picture on the far left?
Lordy! I came over here to post this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/123711221091 [IMG] Vintage Solid Gold, Seed Pearl Natural Conch Shell Cameo...
Jivvy does remember correctly. But whoa! Someone got really carried away with the drill, finding as many places to use it as he could & using...
Unlike the Pennsylvania 'Dutch'.
A phrase I never really expected to hear in my lifetime. (Or any other time.) :)
My first thought was that it is not Blue John, but might be a stone that is like BJ in being associated with a specific place/region, having some...
I didn't know what you meant, now I do, although had to go back and look for it. Is one of the areas along the line of her visor? The photos are...
Separate names with a comma.
