Ça suffit. :happy:
It would be helpful to know what happens when the various cranks are turned.
Thank you for the explication. Think I'd rather be accused of pipsy poo than twee!
And I can't wear 'statement' pieces. I'm tall, so pipsy poo (is that anything like twee?) looks inappropriately girlish. But I'm fine boned with...
It's such a handicap for European scholars. I recently took a bunch of screen shots & pasted them together because an Italian professora friend...
Formidable!
Notice it is over a listing for une mouche. (I think it is une abeille.) Why am I not surprised? :kiss::kiss:
I had not seen this one before. Although the image does not quite match the story as told here, she is not producing roses from under her mantle,...
Neither is fine jewellery, but the MOP necklace should attract some interest if in good condition. I can't tell from the photos: are both ends of...
Is that the French eagle's head double stamped in the first photo?
I think you are absolutely correct, that the guilloché part started life as the lid of a compact. And agree with komokwa's assessment of the...
I believe this is due to a difference in copyright law, nothing to do with Google.
Yesterday's mail: [ATTACH] The Diana of Versailles, signed with what looks like 'T. Mocchi', listing pic shown previously, now after a long soak...
A hare, nice! Looks quite old. What is the back like? A scholar friend wrote a whole paper about mice on ancient engraved gems.
To the extent I can read the inscriptions, they are all in Roman letters. This is the great thing about coins compared to most cameos: they...
Exactly. Beads are mother of pearl & clasp is also etched in MOP. See this thread for some others:...
Too funny. People like the woman who thought you were irradiating the food are a menace. Thank goodness law enforcement had better sense.
It was last night when I went creeping around & the paperweight lives on the sill of a front window. It did occur to me that the lighting...
Off with her head!
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