Not sure if it answers or raises more. It does raise the possibility that the stone is in fact stone and not glass after all. And the happier...
After reading in various Antiquers threads about the usefulness of UV light in determining the nature of some materials, when I spotted little UV...
Too funny. Not just the JW mark, one from 1899: http://www.silvercollection.it/englishsilvermarksXJWWW.html
Thank you. I do not have too many cameos that are not set as jewellery or intended to be. This may well be my favorite of these decorative...
Just as an artistic reference point, this early 16th century engraving is after Albrecht Durer: [IMG]...
I should add that the cameo itself does not look like it is from 1924, but a cameo and its mount do not have to be contemporaneous, and there...
Think it was sold as 1924, maker unspecified. Thank you both & to anyone else who took a look. My mother was fond of a different saying, but, to...
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Wondered if next word could be ENGLAND. [ATTACH]
First part gestalts as Wedgwood for me. Did they ever make this sort of thing?
The marks on this small silver box are pretty clear, but I'm having trouble coming to a firm conclusion about date and maker. OK, here goes....
Yeah, maybe the wrong metaphor. We exercised the nuclear option & now we're suffering the fallout.
I like her very much. She is from early in what I think of as the Italian nouveau style. Have never seen a background treatment like that. My...
Does seem these days that we're in for a bloodletting.
I have always understood cairngorm to be smoky or orange-y shades of quartz named for the region where it is found? Maybe there has come to be...
Hi Tarren. Aren't you glad you asked? :happy:
Really nice. Designed to be a fob seal but the carnelian was never engraved. Given the color of the faceted stone, I have to think glass. Given...
Thank you. She's quite small, but photographed like a champion. Funny thing is, within a few days of spotting this one on eBay, stumbled onto a...
A cautionary tale about auction houses and misinformation. Just a couple of weeks ago I was made aware of a cameo coming up for auction by a firm...
These are the results of a search of the British Library's catalogue of incunabula for 'Bible' & printed in France. You have to expand the record...
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