I know absolutely nothing about buttons, but lack of knowledge rarely stops me from commenting. I looked at your button in different orientations...
BTW - Welcome Shkooter!
Think it would help if we could see it? Centre Street is now all court buildings & other governmental offices, Would think brass items have not...
What looks like a large patch of verdigris on the lid is not promising for high silver content.
Lots of anthropology going on in that period, Margaret Mead, Bronislaw Malinowski, etc. Could be the photographer for such a study.
It looks more like 217 to me, but not that crisp & probably not helpful either way. :happy:
There is more detail on this Wiki page. Even without the name at the bottom, there are clues to his identity in the image. The palm frond...
Yeah, enlarged it looks like one of those photos people take & swear is a ghost. Looks less like a pi here. Just complicated matters, could be...
My eyes often betray me, so not sure. Is this the mark in question? [ATTACH]
My first thought was Orrefors, but seems not. They mark clearly.
The lady looks too alive to me to be the dear departed & angels do not usually crawl over their charges like an incubus. Not sure what the winged...
Now that is Lady of Shallot-ish!
Erwin Rommel's?
My experience in fabric stores is limited, but the ones I have visited have a yard stick affixed to the counter. Don't think I have ever been in...
If, in the next couple of weeks, three strange men show up at your house, bearing little caskets and claiming a star led them there, for heaven's...
I don't need to follow the link, I recognize it as Jan Campbell's site. Sometimes I see a cameo for sold in another venue turn up offered by her,...
The setting is lovely. Hope whoever did this did not do it in a way that the original mount will be wrecked if someone tries to undo it. Will be...
The symbol is not new, but making sure to add it to your signature on a painting this way speaks of the piratical age we live in. A potter I knew...
In the photo, the sketch of the scene on the back looks like pencil. Is it really ink? Trying to figure out if it would have bled through to the...
This is what I mean by the millstone look of many en habillé pieces. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] This a very peculiar piece: the setting, with its...
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