Save your money, honey.
If you’re on Facebook, ask on the Bitossi group.
It was banned here in 1949....
Can you tell how it’s affixed to the brass base? I ask, because it looks more like an antiquity than an antique.
I’ve some unmarked Hoard diamond pieces. It’s really only after ww2 that it gets “universal” to mark.
A solid back will test positive for diamonds, often using those hand held things.
Oh, he’s lovely.
I think that local shop is telling massive porkies. I’d agree between the wars, and a typical design. It doesn’t look silver but the mark would be...
Yours is rather earlier than the nice example @Debora posted. The colour on yours is more muted, and the transfer pattern less exact. Yours will...
Agreed, it’s pretty modern.
Early nineteenth Staffordshire almost certainly.
I’ve not seen an American patent number with that format. Yes, useful site isn’t it.
It can’t be 1871, we didn’t start using simple numbering till 1883. this is decent. https://www.oldcopper.org/special_topics/registered_designs.php
Heavy or light? Cold or warm?
That perfume with the sail is Cristal d’Arques.
Looks more fifties to my eye. An old toothbrush with a little spray window cleaner on the stones, sunshine cloth on the rest.
That’s a very nice kluk kluk. Yours has the blue grey tinge that might well mean Holmegaard. But I need to see the base.
I’ve seen similar in the U.K. with made in Japan labels. That same base.
I went to the Cairo Museum many years ago. Five thousand year old exquisite jewels.
Or turn it off and on again!
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