Same points I noticed, but like gauntlett, would like to see top to understand that pointy bit.
Franz? No, changed my mind.
Awwww.
This is cropped from your next to last pic. Looks like some damage here, which may be your point. [ATTACH]
It looks like a lamp base to me, with some seriously scrambled neoclassical imagery.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/301687737256 [ATTACH]
The crafts/artisan world is another market. I have seen them as: bases for small sculptures or carvings; wind chimes; parts of stained glass...
Geode slices. Basically nodules of agate, sliced.
Not likely to be solid silver. Could be chrome plated. And not Giacometti.
I know: Ku Klux Krew.
Carnivale/Mardi Gras somewhere? A Krew? [just scooped by Bakers] There's an emblem recurring throughout of a white circle quartered by black...
It opens up to be large enough that some adult women could wear it. I could get it on, pretty sure. I'm fine boned & have trouble with bracelets...
Erin? If that circle goes with it. I don't recognize it, but my knowledge base is better for Victorian. Sorry.
I recall bed jackets being the default gift choice for a woman who was having a planned hospitalization or one that was going to be prolonged when...
I adore tourmaline, which comes naturally in an array of colors, but partial to the blue greens. Can't afford a genuine Paraibo, just drool.
This is Celluloid, or one of the other patented materials that were similar: [ATTACH]
I have seen it called that, like 'French jet'. Do the French call them English ivory & English jet?
I'm not the only misguided soul. I get far more images of the glass globes searching for lightning rod insulators than just for lightning rods.
Point taken. Seems the glass parts could also be decorative finials: http://www.oldworlddistributors.com/air-terminal-lightning-rod.html
Just spotted this on the one on the right. Blitzen means lightning, as in Donder & Blitzen: [ATTACH]
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