Any old pawn shop will have a diamond tester. If they register as glass, they're glass. Garnets are about a 7 on the Mohs scale, so a diamond...
Bumped right over the curb and off the track it did!
My first instinct is garnets too. Those are rose cut stones and most rhinestones are flat on top.
Now it's there. Their rules are a lot easier to read than Ebay's.
I bet @Any Jewelry nails this cold. I wouldn't be surprised if it were silver and equally not surprised if it's not. At first glance it looked...
Enameled brass? Old at any rate. Sweet piece; the fun part will be finding a shade now that indie lamp shops have gone the way of the dodo....
Meanwhile that link comes up 404. I think you have to be logged in to see it.
I need Lebanese cook neighbors! And stuffed grape leaves! We used to get dolmas in salad bars here, when we had salad bars. They were Greek...
I think it's supposed to be a knight, but it looks like a hard hat diver for sure. Dollars to donuts if you sold it the buyer would be more...
Welcome fellow junque junkie!
I don't think they're fake Meissen; people have been using a crossed swords mark for ages. These wouldn't even fake me out into thinking I had...
Sure looks like one! Is it open-backed or foiled?
Yep! Those tangles often contain all sorts of goodness. I've gotten vintage sterling chains that way too.
Settled then. I may end up putting something else out here later. Whenever I get that far. (just typed "whenever I get that fat" ... already...
I use a needle or pin, just in case there's enough gold in the tangle to pay for the whole pile. Went to the Ill Will today and they actually had...
Party at Any's house!
I've had trouble with the $10 items too. The $100 ones go right through, but those lousy $14.99 including shipping sales are murder.
I'd planned to donate the purple one, now that it's unclaimed, locally. But if someone wants it....?
She looks pretty new to me too. Cameo habille in the style of one from the 1920s, but the carving is more post-1980 than 1900.
Or de-knotting. It's one of my favorite things, sitting around and unscrambling.
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