Blimey!
Are you on the British Studio Pottery Mystery Marks Facebook group? Someone will know it. It reminds me of some Aldermaston but also Chelsea...
Certianly Arts and Crafts. I don't think we ever used trombone clasps here, so I'd go with across the Channel.
Yup, wedding cake. How long are they? I'd have said 50s into 60s.
Hinge is 1930s into 40s ish.
Have you got a UV torch? That would show it. I suspect the amber is a replacement, I've seen these more often with something like amethyst.
You could also still buy here in the seventies and a bit later nice cases to put your ordinary lippy in, regardless of whether it was a refill.
Lovely bit of late Victorian hardstone and I bet it's gold. They were often unmarked.
I can't spell delphinium today. Here, bomber jacket is almost anything a tad blouson, sitting on the waist, with stretchy cuff and waist bands...
They're called bomber jackets here. YMMV. I think the blue is meant to be a delphineum.
That's a very nice one, too.
Chrysanths are surprisingly accurate. God knows what that blue thing is meant to be, it ain't no violet.
See, I was thinking British. The setting is typical and we imported Bohemian stones like fury. (It can't be Czech as such, the country didn't...
It's in Godden as 1906+ as well. That ' is an old indication of abbreviated county names.
Gawd, that's only a mouthful!
I'd run very fast from that one. His language is classic scammer speak.
Yes on makie lacquer.
My twin brooch isn't marked, but I do think it's at least low grade silver. The Hobe, I think, are 80s.
It's absolutely a hyacinth vase shape. If I can find it, someone I know wrote an excellent article on it for the Glass Association here.
I've got the twin to that Arabic brooch and I think also the Hobe earrings.
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