That's the sterling cartouche on the other side. A bit of the lower edge shows through on the fronts. Unless you meant the foot on the urn of course.
That's a 40x loupe for you. The rectangle is the 925 on the other side of the link. It's on all of them. The birdie is sitting on an urn.
If I find a real one, it's not going anywhere. ... (rubs hands)
Could the designs be Persian, produced elsewhere? The Iranians use their own silver marks.
or at least not clamp down too hard.
Or a paraiba of same.
It has to be 50s or later from the hardware, and I'd say 60s is more likely as a start date. Beyond that...dunno.
And supposed documentation doesn't trump history... and I"ll leave Trump out of it unless you're talking Bridge or Roger Zelazney.
I haven't looked at my total ; I don't quite dare.
It already happened to me once, but they were silver and I was already buying the coral. :-)
That brooch could be 1860s/1870s or so; the pin stem looks steel and it's a lot longer than the brooch. That usually says "I'm older than dirt"....
Archaic Chinese? Japanese that isn't.
It's the fancy name for a train nut. I was raised by one.
That may have been a Chanel store decoration. It'll have a following.
But watch out. She'll have you buying Peranakan silver and coromandel wood sculpture in no time flat.
Is anyone else seeing an I Dream of Genie bottle?
Is that similar to an exhultation of ferroequinologists who have found their station in life?
Machinist's / tool chest for sure. It's great for storing odds and ends, if you're not storing tools.
I'm about as far as you can get from a jade expert, but I like it too. And serpentine, and random dyed rock. and...you get the idea.
Even Sir Paul ...(sigh) shoulda known.
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