There is way more here about Olenin than I have time to read right now. He's one of the saints of library science:...
See how a lower case T is written in Italic. Somehow that entire post got by me. It happens when things are not visible all on one page. OK....
If I ask IM Translator to give me the Russian for Imperial Academy of Art, the word it uses for Art does not start with X, but it does translate...
Evidently the script is Italic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrillic-italics-nonitalics.png
As I said, you had more faith in me than I did. I was waiting for Fig to come along & validate the transliteration. If it's not Bulgarian, I...
That makes more sense; engraver ran out of space. I read enough to gather that this character has more to do with how the preceding letter is...
Seems as though not. Could be the start of Imperial Academy, but X not consistent with 'Arts'. [see #888]
You're getting downright scary, you know that?! You had more faith in the job I made of it so far than I did myself. It is undoubtedly he, a...
Addendum: the bar replaces the encircling frame within which the main part originally swiveled.
He's just as good as we hoped - congratulations on an excellent acquisition. Polishing can make shell, if it is flat enough & color is right,...
Need the eyes of members who can read Cyrillic: @Nick Georgia @Nadia G @avant @Figtree3 @Caribou's House A new acquisition has writing on the...
Brilliant, as always.
Pretty big if it can hold 1/2 litre.
Hello, golddazzler. I have never seen anything at all creative done with a clasp, an extravagant touch, given that only the wearer gets to see...
Agree. More like a copy of a copy.
In this case it means the buckle was not made any earlier than that. Unless successor companies continued to use the Gray name on their products,...
It's a beauty. Looking at it, remembered something I haven't needed to know in decades: there is no key for the numeral 1, you use the lower case...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/two_claws_jewelry/5163477518 https://calisphere.org/item/174e04cf16399e9da71ae71c1b3c2b3d/ This death notice,...
Looks more like a sash buckle than a belt buckle. Scooped by Holly. It can't have been made before 1868 (as I read it), but could have been made...
Think this would fall in the category 'vintage blanket coat'.
Separate names with a comma.
