I get the best results following up from Davey's link by searching for snake eyes pistol. This one is already sold & price not given, but does...
Some toy! if that's what it is. Sure not done on a 3-D printer. How would you keep cap in place before the hammer hit it? I remember ones that...
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Ornis dyspepsia?
Lucille has already raised her.
There is no reason to think they are artificial "pearls" & not genuine pearls. Seed pearls were not so expensive they would not have been used,...
Love the words of wisdom above & below.
Ah, now I see. I did not pick up on the rectangular section with the pearls being a separate piece attached to the circular body. Wonder if...
Long a major center of US jewellery manufacturing, to this day.
This one has a detachable dangle:...
Then again, maybe whatever was suspended there wasn't meant to be removable. http://www.ebay.com/itm/302355091302 [IMG] [IMG]
I'm sure you're also wondering about age. The safety clasp is newer than the pin/hinge assembly. It is not uncommon to see replacement clasps,...
That's definitely a loop, although it looks like maybe the 2 ends of the ring have not been soldered closed? You'll have to help my brain out; it...
Poking around for this thread, found these, a way of making an ordinary shirt look like it has French cuffs with links:...
That would be a good word too. If that one little metal bit were not there, I would wonder if this was a button cover converted to a brooch. But...
Here's your girl with a little more paint: http://www.ebay.com/itm/372421217368 [IMG]
If OP is correct that it is a loop soldered closed, & not a hook that has been bent in, anything that attached would have to have a hook. There...
Do you sing while you beaver away?
I rotated the photo to the orientation I think it goes in, with the pin running right to left & the loop at the bottom of the brooch. The design...
Yeah, 'bottle green' was big in the 70s. And in the late 70s there was a lot of colorful, inexpensive glass home decor stuff on the market from...
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