And looks like he can do it sitting down, too. Echoes of Herakles strangling the snakes Hera sends to kill him in his cradle.
The label on the bottom is in Italian; articoli da regalo means 'gift items'. Chiaro is the Italian for the French claire/Spanish claro. Looks...
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Looks like either the French, claire de la lune, or Spanish, claro de la luna, for moonlight, except sort of mangled. The crescent moon suggests...
Pocket toothpick, I believe. Edit: Pulled mine out to compare. It has a Shinto gate on the top, but those same bands on the shaft that suggest...
Camels, deer & ibex (kind of goat) are all mentioned in the Bible. That fourth one is unknown to me. Suspect lion rather than monkey. It may...
That it would be great for a cameo collection, except it looks like oak?
You should have become a telegrapher & stuck with Morse code. :)
Very interesting piece: in one way quite common; in another, unusual. You may already know, but for others who follow this thread, it is a Days...
I see no way to hold this with one hand while turning the crank with the other without interfering with the winding operation. It was made to sit...
I see no reason to assume that bit of string there now ever had anything to do with the functioning of the piece; could have once held a tag at...
Well, they're the signatures of the professors in all the major fields, including Syphilology, attesting to the new doctor's qualifications....
Think we would also like to see them cleaned up & photographed on a white background. I don't know what colors behind are doing to colors...
Pretty much, I'd say. :)
The distinction does not seem to be a well-defined one. According to this sort of Moonstone for Dummies page from the GIA...
1917. Celia must have been one of the last doctors graduated while Chicago School of Medicine was still part of Valparaiso.
No reason to think they are fakes & very few women were admitted to medical school at that time, so think they may be good sellers indeed....
That is the question. :) @Torkel Oftedal don't get your hopes up!
My impression is that a lot of what goes around the upper edge is decoration of alternating flower shapes & strokes that resemble letters but are...
I did wonder whether the smallest dots, like those on the stem, might be molded into the piece & then coated.
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