These are sort of lighting & camera artifacts. When held up with a sunny window behind, the stone is quite pale from either side, just faintly...
Welcome, Cookie. You sound pretty much like the rest of us. Love the color of your vase, looks perfect for a few stalks of iris. Bakersgma is...
I'm always sticking my own stuff into other people's postings; no exception this time. While not so distinctly banded, this tiny cabochon brooch...
This is like a mini-museum of agates: http://www.scotlandsagates.co.uk/index.html I have seen the blue-grey varieties called simply montrose...
Might be a market for this stuff other than military, nautical. :angelic:
Going by your avatar, guessing my first thought about this will have limited appeal: get breast implants. This requires a serious bosom. I can,...
I have a couple of those Rocky things, but they're more like chippers than shippers.
Of course now Google won't produce that one in results, maybe because it's limited access & I had already looked at it several times. It showed...
If you went there now, you would find it very changed, although the gate, the fountain & the original buildings are still there. Most of the...
In 1942 Parke-Bernet Galleries were offering 12 Minton plates from Charles R. Lynde, Boston, so does not seem to cheapen them any.
I found an ad in a publication from 1930.
The 9 ct gold used almost certainly means it was made in the UK, so perfectly likely the stone is domestic. :happy:
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Handsome, solidly made ring. Banded agate of carnelian alternating with bands of less colorful chalcedony (also called banded carnelian) is a...
The trade publication with the tidbit about the 1921 trip starts by mentioning someone else making the voyage to visit English porcelain...
This blog page talks about date marks. Anything like that on your pieces, a letter above 2 numbers?...
Tell him how it is marked, what it means & let him decide what next?
He went into the business almost straight out of high school.
Found one mention that shop was around from about 1865, which seems unlikely to be correct, as a Charles R. Lynde graduated from a Boston high...
I was ready to write that I thought it was more likely to be a little oil lamp. Realizing there is no safe way to advance the wick while lit is...
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