In the words of the Prophet....(((glorp)))
That looks like 1890s quarter-sawn oak. Beyond that...dunno.
Wrong color for amethyst I think, and the inner structure looks... odd. The stone is about a 7 to 7.5 on the mohs scale. I wouldn't be surprised...
I have earrings too. Or HAD in one case; one of the beads bounced and was never seen again. (sigh)
Addiction... well, I hope the family jewelry ended up in the hands of another addict, a jool addict that is, who treasured it.
They had a trade name, but I can't remember for the life of me what it was. They're along the lines of Forbidden Fruit, but that's not right....
More family fights have started over that stuff.... My sister and I divvied up most of the family jewelry at one point. She got most of it,...
I was thinking jelly opal. But... definitely opal. It looked like sapphiret at first glance, but this ain't that. Either way, it sounds like...
The front doesn't look like the eilat I'm used to. My usual tipple is green and black, sometimes with a little blue. The stone in modern pieces...
It was Spanish in between the times it belonged to the French. Dunno as the Brits ever got a look-in.
I'm not sure it was ever a pendant per se. Holy water bottle maybe?
I figured something was up.
The S is aftermarket; the whole set was probably marked with the same S.
I think the OP's in the UK, so.... I looked for marks on the silver, but the images don't enlarge enough to see them. The ones on the pierced...
Just to jump on the bandwagon, the good older stuff was almost never signed. That's another point in favor of them being vintage.
I was figuring late 30s to late 40s, but if it's English it could be older; it looks like my grandparents' set they bought in 1946. Right after...
Those red glass stones on the edges have me thinking the whole thing is Czech and made for export, but it could also be folks in the USA imitating...
I think it's some kind of landscape abstract. The only thing I can read is the date - 1971. There's a signature on it in Latin alphabet and what...
Welcome to the Nutty world of antiques, from one of the nuts.
Another vote here. I tend to make off with LV when I find it too.
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