NO wonder he looked familliar!
I've seen similar. I think the originals were clear and Scandi. Then reworked by an Italian maker in colours.
He's typical of a mediaeval lion.
I've been staring at this. It's familiar: something I've seen a larger version of. And yes, the London lion. It may yet come to me.
Indeed they did.
Exactly - the settings were factory made.
Chinese sherdware, but I think older. The box looks earlier than the stuff in the 80s.
It's parquetry, strictly speaking, rather than marquetry, as it's geometric.
No thanks.
No, the backs are old. These aren't copies. I own and have handled many. The paste is also old. In the UK the fashion for star brooches well...
Oh my days, we did some naff stuff. Love it.
Candles.
Those are old backs.
The d is wrong though: I'm looking at both Jacksons and Bradbury, and it's italic.
Blimey. Very nice. And yes to amber.
Bless you, aren't you lovely. Mass production, if you can call it that, has been around in the UK for centuries. Settings like this were made in...
The label was absolutely helpful. Backs it up as a Sklo Union maker and the timeframe.
Arg. 1900s it ain't! Czechoslovakia didn't exist then. That made in label is a 60s or 70s ish Sklo Union one. They're indents.
AJ has descirbed the bendy things far better than me. ;)
Oh, well spotted kyra. And even more likely to have been an earring.
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