"I'll find something to do with it". :happy::happy::happy:
Yep! That!
Yeah - people still buy Elvis.(LOL) For two bucks you can't get hurt. I have a hunch those are vending machine photos, and these days they can...
I like those old Soviet propaganda pins for no good reason. They're fun.
It says 925.(LOL) It might not be marked for the gold if the plating is thin. Gold filled would be marked.
Hand painted under glaze. These were made for export, so they marked them in English. No idea who.
This we gotta see. You can always scrap the gold to pay for the glass! The bacchante is already spoken for on another site.
Wouldn't work on me!
Two people wanted a piece from Grandma's home town, or made in the family factory, and neither was backing down? It happens.
Packaged with junk. Looks like junk. Nope.(LOL)
If it's older, those might be real gold. It's definitely rose quartz. It's likely dyed or enhanced, but most of it is these days. If it has a...
It wants to be purple jade, but it's really RDR - Random Dyed Rock. Candy jade to use the current term, and sterling. Probably Chinese.
Women wore them too, at least for a while.
Now it looks like an upside-down rabbit.(LOL) It's not one I know....and have you tested the ring? It looks awfully good for gold-fill. Someone...
A lot of American ones just had the metal mark, and some not even that.
These may have been made as cuff links and buttons simultaneously and sold both ways. I've found enamel button cuff links once or twice. The cuff...
That looks like a rabbit. The Czechs, if memory serves, use a rabbit's head as a silver mark for .800 silver. They don't use the whole rabbit...
Score!
Gold-plated sterling, Uncas makes some, with probable glass stones. I don't recall them ever using any real ones, even in sterling.
Today's haul. The blue pin and the pineapple (Japanese ginbari and costume goldtone) are going to my mom; her birthday is at the end of the...
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