Maybe it was meant to be the bottom of a lamp? One of the ones with a night light in the base? Pretty sweet piece.
Once again, Brad scores!
Could it be a really badly struck French hallmark? It's bitty enough.
I have plenty of those foldovers around. Can't say I'm too fond of them either; they aren't all that secure and the heavy pennies probably pulled...
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Someone is going to jump on those no matter whodunnit.
Alzheimer's, possibly. Metal stuff would have been OK, once washed off and aired out. Everything else might be a problem.
Someone might well have put the pennies onto the bracelet later. The bracelet could be 50s very easily, with pennies added in the 60s or 70s....
And if that's a back country piece it could be even later. Styles hung on in more rural places. Brad's the expert though.
Paper mache wouldn't surprise me. They needed something they could mold into shape and pulped paper with glue fit the bill.
Poor cats!
Lucky senior community; here in CT no one is immune. If you own property of any sort you pay for the schools. If it doesn't move, tax it. If it...
I hope so. The flask wasn't dirt cheap, but it was too funny to pass up. The top screws down and it has a little dipper thingie. It looks like...
Some of my stuff from yesterday. The pink optic glass was $3 at a yard sale. Not marked, but I'm guessing Japanese. There's also a perfume...
MoP is more likely. I'm not seeing ivory.
I never knew he worked in silver at all, just pewter. He's a famous brutalist jewelry maker, but I've only ever seen pewter.
Or pay his New Jersey taxes; the state charges an arm and a leg.
I'm betting it broke and got dumped, like a lot of modern tools. Given the way the edges have worn down, old may not be the word for it.
Slightly. It happens. I tell myself the person ought to have checked or may just not have cared. Some people just want it gone and if the other...
No hallmarks, so no way to be sure.
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