Those Erte prints were a huge thing in the late eighties into the nineties.
That impressed numbering style is often German or Austrian. @Any Jewelry on the costume!
Oh, gerroff, you got Victorian Scottish hardstone at a steal. Silver, agate, might be amethyst, test it.
I'd bet on Japan for those.
Yup, anti rust stuff. I think serious age. Late 19th.
It's almost a snake or lizard skin look.
If you're fairy fingered, then once you've removed the rust you could brush on some clear inhibitor solution.
This one is huge fun, she creates tableaux and scenes.
I do that with jools. Grab a pawful.
It's one of the Stations of the Cross, from somewhere in Rome. Blowed if I remember where. The one where he falls and Veronica wipes his face, I...
I think it's grinding or pounding corn. I've a silver brooch somewhere with a cloaked figure like the other one, with an alpaca.
It's paste, and under a glass you see a wee black dot at the base of the stone. Idea was to make it look more like an old cut diamond. Your eye is...
Bou, have you seen the Facebook page called SindySnap?
Costume is Peruvian. And I think female.
I suspect the agate is gold. It needs testing: seller wanted fifty quid (!) as she thought it was, but that rapidly dropped to twenty when I...
I'd go down the WD40 route. If you can find a wee wire brush, give that a go too. Hairdryer after. It's certainly rust, so vinegar isn't a thing.
NA belt might be Avon, they had a range. That's black dot Georgian paste, I reckon. Pheasant is 20s or 30s, that round brooch is Victorian...
The Chinese ones often say Health, Long Life, Wealth and Happiness I think. The Toledo Ware is breeding. I think I like it partly because I...
Thanks all. I think I've now proven nothing is too weird to follow me home.
SERIOUSLY? OK, that's weird. It outweirds my usual weird.
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