I do that too!
The glass one is intriguing. Has to have a meaning, but I can’t find the emblem. The beads don’t do the UV thing, so Bakelite test next.
He’s a souvenir of Venice, I have his twin, bought in the early eighties. I need to go check his undersides. I think yours is older because it’s...
Not stone, way too light and the feel is all wrong. Some kind of “plastic” be it natural or manmade.
Aren’t they just. Lovely colour.
@Bronwen i think it’s aventurine glass rather than goldstone, given the millefiori and the blue glass. It’s all one plaque. Lovely quality. The...
I need to fish out the tester on that stone, I think.
Oh god, I knew that. My fingers went their own way. Isn’t it nice? Really well made.
I definitely needed it. The dangles on the amber glass are uranium glass.
Could be. I’ve had Afghan recycled glass before, which is why I wondered about this one. I can’t work out what the beads are.
I know some have tried the stuff you use on car windscreens.
Gardenias enamelled on silver, interesting centre stone and LOOK at the back. Who bothers with proper enamel on the unseen bits? [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Nice aventurine, modern bracelet which is silver. And stuff. The pendant is really well made, that bale is hinged. It's 950 silver. [ATTACH]...
Bloke who thinks He Knows sold me this lot for twenty quid. It was a fiver each or three for a tenner but he let me have seven bits. The Latin...
I think this might be Afghan. Can't decide what the beads are made of. They're not amber, anyhow. Green looks like recycled and reshaped glass....
On a practical note, makers only put Made In, if they wanted to export to the USA or a country which mandated it. Domestic wares and stuff for...
I can see the controversy on that one. A PAPAVER? Nah. I was thinking the curls looked like emerging dryopteris. Unless it’s a berserk dicentra.
The leaves aren’t lotus though. They look like fern curls.
Old glass, old engraving. Relatively crudely done, which is not to demean it. Missing a stopper, and probably early nineteenth.
That glaze was done by British, Belgian and as I’ve just discovered, New Zealand makers. The NZ one is Milton’s. Damn odd mark. Spoon is...
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