Trombone clasps still get used all over the Middle East and Egypt, too.
The box is 1980s ish, they got brighter later on. Saw lots of these in Hong KOng, I rather like them.
I'd say glass.
How very nice and helpful of them.
I got one of mine the same way - an eleven month old rather damaged boy dumped on my vet, who knew I'd take him. Eleven years later and the rest...
He has a very fine agouti coat. Wonder if there's a bit of Abyssinian in him.
Hm. Barnacle coral maybe.
Old price tag, not maker's label, I'd say.
1930s Czech/Bohemian brass and glass.
it is indeed: suffragette colours. I suspect a copy of the real thing.
@Houseful wins. ;)
This is a fairly recent costume brooch. Can you guess why I rather like it? ;) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Men wore these as well.
Tin glazed pottery, that is.
Very nice find, good photos. I'd think Victorian: buckle rings and bracelets were common, and emblems of love between wearer and giver. The...
It's Vallauris. Giraud? http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/mp.cgi?item=98
Mine are identical at the back.
Georgian tortoiseshell snuff box. There's a name for that colour, if my brain remembers.
The carnet is Indian.
I have several of these. Late 19th C into early 20th , hammered thin pewter sheet crimped over a brooch frame with a Ruskin cabochon centre. They...
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