Certainly meant to look like stone, but I'm getting the sense it is glass. Sophisticated glass, but glass. I'm finding the rhodonite body with...
Definitely haute 60s, gone by the 70s. (When sold; not necessarily when owner carried.) Once, out of the blue, my mother sent me a little purse...
Is the color even throughout?
That coat of arms is far out, man.
Realized after I wrote maybe just a mouthpiece.
If it's caused by exposure to sun, I'd call the color ultraviolet. :)
Thank you, madam. :)
I've always been inclined to Chinese. This doesn't have the logo, but a lot of similarity in the egg:...
In college, when a joint was being passed around, I would politely decline with No thanks, I just brushed my teeth. The double take would be...
I got caught up in wondering why it was threaded on that one end & was clueless too, until Holly pointed out the leaf. Think, though, that there...
Don't know if any of you are familiar with La Tausca pearl boxes. The pearls themselves do not seem to command much, but the old presentation...
I hadn't been thinking of it as being any earlier than 1900. Both the history of Celluloid and of cameos of this type would allow for an earlier...
I can't tell you how badly I wanted one of these as a little girl. I had ballet lessons, no ballerina music box jewellery box. In retrospect, of...
My mother would have called those 'stair step children', an expression that had the subtext of pitying the poor mother, who must have spent years...
All thoughts & additions welcome. The interior of the box looks like it underwent a thorough reworking. Think there is no reason to assume it...
ukiyo-e?
Yes, that led me straight to it. The misspelling was surely flagged by the editing program; they just didn't notice. It is competent at best, so...
Mine is a faux wannabe. :kiss::kiss:
Of course it is so tempting to want to think it is genuine ivory. But I just spent some more time looking at, & touching, the bands on the box &...
Exasperation is more like it. It seems to me the incidence of non-Rebeccas being described that way is decreasing somewhat but will probably...
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