The metal was always a dress clip, but they may have done matching pins or buttons or whatever.
That wouldn't surprise me. Chinese and other Asian stuff was and is sold in the Bay area early and often. I would not be selling either for melt...
That's what I was thinking, doubly so since the "pearls" are painted glass. Or were painted glass. The back looks "funny" for glass and the color...
Or on your dinner plate!
Love the colors in that!
Greetings! I only wish I had some of that advertising; it was not exported to America, so I've never seen much. I did see the...
If that doesn't work: http://www.thejewelleryeditor.com/jewellery/article/graff-diamonds-us100-million-peacock-brooch/
That's the same brooch; the one they were describing is gold and diamonds, and this ain't that. The one in your image is the same as the OPs,...
Dauplaise used a bunch of them in the 1970s, but the turn up on homemade pieces too. The stones look like dyed aventurine.
Shell or horn yes, tortoise probably not. The findings are sterling - so marked.
Those want to be jade, but they're probably dyed Chinese rock.
The loop tells me it was meant to be worn either as a pin or upside-down as a pendant, although there could have been a dangle instead at some point.
It was probably made as a souvenir. The coins were plentiful at the time, and adding the work around the outside and the bail made it a nice...
Crabs and all? ("crabs" in American often refers to parasites no one wants to catch)
But not to really fool anyone I don't think.
The larger blue stones are most likely glass; acetone won't affect it, but it will eat the glue holding them. Just had a second look at the whole...
Or Wilkommen, if you prefer. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
If you like it and want to wear it ... 500 still sounds pretty steep. I've never seen another one like it, but don't think the engraving is hand...
My first thought was 1990s cell phone charm. Remember those? Cobbled together of older parts. When leather phone cases and non-smartphones went...
The little flowers are blue aurora borealis rhinestones. The pin is newish and there's a signature back there. Les Bernard???? (I think it's...
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