Some folks use cheap toothpaste. I'd use real silver polish or a polishing cloth. If you use the paste just be sure to clean off all the paste....
It could be golden jubilee too; the diamond one might have meant they'd use sparklies instead of the pearls.
If the piece was washing around for a while, the water and rocks could have done that. OTOH a gold setting is suggestive... so... nothing would...
I think it's a shell fragment that wants to be a river pearl.
I'd lay better odds it's 800 if anything. If this is an older piece it could be 800 grade rather than sterling. The Italians made a lot of it....
I don't care that much. I'm not too fond of monograms unless they look cool. Inscriptions and handwriting all over a cookbook are both things...
What he said. I'd use it to strip plating off of copper, but that's about it. Silver-plated copper that is, once it's worn out anyway.
Me too; they've been restrung at least once, so the clasp means nothing whatever.
I think there's more than the WB C. Ch-something. The beads look like agate and possibly silver. They could just be plated.
That design almost had to be Italian, but unfortunately it doesn't have to be silver. The Italians are generally pretty good about marking the...
Anything you want that looks good. If you have to go out and buy new, I'd mix them up. You could go with all opaque black too, or a gray-blue....
Are those mate spoons, by any chance? The good ones are silver. I go by the 3M rule when it comes to precious metals - Modern + mass-produced =...
Welcome. And don't just sit there, post stuff! There's nothing this motley mess likes better than a good puzzle. (unless it's a truly horrible...
Yep. I don't know about the Neiger part, but 20s Czech without a doubt.
(LOL) Oops! I love finding pieces by that "maker" too!
I make those Christmas pictures too, also from the singles and broken pieces. As a joolie I've found the ones made from bits I know were whole...
I forgot that some Majorca pieces have real metal on them; sometimes you'll find sterling bits on even common costume pearls, come to think. Once...
And here I thought I did well to score a Kosta Boda apple paperweight today for $4. Yowza.
Majorca pearls are generally costume. The studs are freshwater and sterling. The loosies are more freshwaters. If I had the latter I'd be...
I'd leave bad enough alone, but give it funky new upholstery. I've seen old victorian chairs sell for good money with a modern "ethnic" fabric on...
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