As in, if she's legit she's worth a few Euro more than the OP spent? :-)
Welcome!
If it works I'd be wearing it! It's a perfectly nice little watch. Not much good for resale, except for the gold value.
I don't think these two are ancient, but they're pretty. Thirds or fourths on the ginbari.
I'd make a necklace out of the buckle, or a pin.(LOL)
They used to make books of real photos and sell them for charity. Some were printed by the kajillion, and some not.
Odds on it's nickel, but I'd test just in case. I'm seeing yellow instead of rainbowing.
Hmmm, if it came with the bridegroom....(LOL) I'd be thinking sweater guard too, on the Canada-found one.
Welcome! At first I thought this was an announcement. Darnitt. (LOL) Show us what you've found, so we Americans can drool.
My first guess would be Chinese. No Italian shop would let something that off-kilter out the door.
That's a possibility. The bits I've seen from the 60s were all glass or lucite, but these days you never know!
I can still read odds and sods fairly well, but my spoken French is pretty rusty. And the German ... pitiful.
Sometimes. Sometimes rhinestones do too. Occasionally you'll find a semi-precious stone glued into a setting, but generally the setting is...
Probably glass or some sort of composite. Smart money on glass.
I doubt it. The rhinestones are all glued in and the setting is costume. As the Magic 8 Ball would say, "unlikely".
Holy guacamole. Those are Japanese Mon on the sides, and odds on those are Japanese shakers too. They're know to use the 950 grade silver on the...
Or an apprentice cobbling something together for his own use and not needing "fancy" just effective.
I figured them for Eastern, just not that far East. Oh well.
These were found at a tag sale and sold as old Shabbat candlesticks. I passed them along to a local Jewish lady, Orthodox, whose grandson is an...
Dunno, but I wouldn't want to open one in a dark alley!
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