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Gotta be careful, yelling at people holding blunt instruments. :kiss:
[ATTACH] Yesterday's haul. I got to a local charity thrift and found all sorts of stuff. The copper earrings have sterling backs, made for the...
Old though.
And Brownwen and I posted at the same time. With the same ideas.
Those might well be rubies, in a nice karat gold setting. The clear stones??? I'd guess white sapphire. The opal is probably a doublet, with a...
1950-something would be my guess, and either the original upholstery was damaged or the wife just thought it was ugly. The design is 100%...
If it's in good working order, I'd buy it as a leather machine for certain. Even a regular treadle will do leather with the right needles, but...
I've never even heard of those!
It's more likely lucite, but do the baking soda test to be sure. Dunk a damp cotton swab in baking soda and rub the back of the earring hard....
Skinny has never been one of my problems.
I recognized the church. That building gets painted a lot.
These are probably tourist souvenirs, or something made for export to areas with folks who are into African fashions.
These days no one wears the nylons either. The girdles have a certain "following" one might say, as do all vintage undies. There's a nice market...
Souvenir painting - probably Spanish for John Q Random, sorry to say.
Nice!
Late 1980s is closer than late 1880s. Victorian-inspired works for me, but the dollar store variety.
Looks like Fulani wins ... but I like the Star Fruit idea.(LOL) I'd imagine one eats a whole one the same way you'd eat an apple. Bite into it...
These days the models are often shaped like plastic drinking straws ... and you have to be that shape to look good in the clothes.(LOL) One more...
These are brass, most likely, and they turned up in a Goodwill jar. They look like something I've seen meant to look like an Egyptian tomb find,...
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