It does help! I’ll see if the Pilgrim group confirms it, but that does look right. Funny how things travel, isn’t it.
He wanted eight quid. I sucked my teeth in, so he then said five. I am NOT going to tell the poor sod what it is. It was one of those things that...
One of the Boffo's is on the Mdina Facebook group. Might be worth an ask.
I do, would you believe. I'll go look, thank you.
Yup.
Bloody hell. I missed that fact. It was a two coffees price.
OK, so I don't believe 1stdibs. This is there:...
This is in the MMA. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/2582 There's also one on EBay, but it hasn't got a broken pontil and it...
There was an Ettore Boffo who worked for Mdina.
It’s more romantic than that. The Cross commemorates Eleanor of Castile. Her coffin was carried back to London and a cross erected in each place...
The handles are later, arts and crafts.
Looks Kashmiri to me. Might be missing something?
The frame looks twenties or thirties. I’ve similar ones with cameos in.
I’d think Australia made. I’ve seen sort of similar marks on Aussie bits.
Eighties ish Victorian revival.
I’m very partial to a drop of genever. Those blue beads are Neiger. Red might be Rousselet.
Early nineteenth to my eye and gorgeous. Someone added the chain to suit modern necks.
I’d agree on AVEM and tutti frutti.
Those look right.
My brooch wasn’t bad, either.
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