Face to face, Paypal, or FB payments if you can trust FB with financial info. DONE THAT. ARGGGH! doesn't cover it.
I've had that happen once or twice. Fun when it does, if not for the seller!
1920s shoes all right. The veil could even be earlier.
The molds look kind of like Fiestaware. The glaze is all wrong and so is the base.
No idea whodunnit, but I like him too. I like his attitude!
1920s North Attleboro, Massachusetts costume is my guess. The filigree was hot in the early to mid-1920s and a lot of it came out of Providence...
Those sound like manufacturer's design numbers, but pictures would help.
Moonstones are a feldspar if memory serves. Getting wet shouldn't hurt them, just stay away with the abrasives. And oh'm'gosh I'd have been...
I'd say 1920s based on the shoes. My grandmother wore white ones in her 1921 wedding photo, and wax flowers are dead bang for the 1920s too. The...
I was going to say... yep, looks legit, and probably old too. We crazy Yanks call those dogbone beads, btw.
I've bought some jewelry. Once. Of course I've had estate sales and a few thrifts still open and have probably spent more money, so....
Ebay is also one of the last places where you'll get people bidding like the price is no object. Maybe great-granddaddy was the stationmaster and...
We do need to see the whole thing. If Asian I bet @Any Jewelry knows whodunnit. My first guess would be Peranakan due to sheer output.(LOL)
Nice!
Turquoise-color enamel. Not greenies.
It's Chinese, no question. I have a brooch just like that with matching earrings up on Ebay as I type. They're usually gilt silver of some kind.
We may have to go looking, to make away with any good mistakes!
In its defense, it's pretty. Sometimes people pay for Pretty.
Back in the 1920s these were a hot instrument. Now? You need an Americana or Skiffle player.
The clasp says the chain is gold-filled, if that helps. Raspberry tourmaline wouldn't surprise me on the top stone. I've seen dyed and filled...
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