If you haven't seen it: https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2018/11/10/collectors-corner-terry-kovel-on-antiques-and-collectibles-trends/ And, of...
How big is it?
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Forget Nelson. A tie to Emma Hamilton! I beyond like your post. I'm always running into painting of Emma Hamilton as this, the or the other...
It is actually quite large compared to the majority of early intaglios, which were the right size & shape to be set in a ring. The overall shape...
I would seek advice from @kyratango
Yes, don't just give it away. Could be well worth having the gold tested. I'd pull it for being not as described & do some research on what...
I am sure the coral floral brooch is genuine coral & it may very well be good quality gold. The way it has been pieced together is a major clue....
You don't really see cameos of Egyptian women. What you do see are ones generally identified as Cleopatra, that look like many cameos of Venus,...
The secret life of matchbooks. Who knew? Does it increase the value when there's provenance? I remember a play Six Degrees of Separation. Back...
http://skavenjernova.tripod.com/id24.html Second item. Couldn't trace this through associated link: [IMG] Agree. It should spark.
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Think the beads are there to hide little knots where bead cord was tied off on bead tips needed to attach the strands to the anchors on the clasp....
I'm curious about how news reports handled the little matter of the Y chromosome contributor, unless they claimed parthenogenesis. This didn't...
The first telegram uses the neologism 'childmother'. In the newspaper photo, the baby looks about a third the size of the 'mother'. I ask you......
Hello, kitten-owning Toba. The beads look like glass approximations of Chinese turquoise....
Ah, but having struggled with it, you'll remember next time. You did get a great photo. So we can get a better look: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I'm...
I see no reason to think she is not a single piece of stone. The red layer will have been 'enhanced'. She has suffered what I call a traumatic...
Compare the two. If the designs are an exact match, they are molded glass. Are you sure they're baskets of flowers? I see something more like...
Another think I like about her, indicated by the unconventional jewellery, is that the cutter did depart in an imaginative way from the stock...
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