I think your lng necklace is 1920s - typical flapper length.
Those are modern faux pearls. Could be Japanese, or Chinese or, or, or! I've got lots of these, bought new in the 90s, big thing then.
I suspect if you got at it with a Sunshine Cloth it would look fine as is.
Potters are lousy botanists. They're either pelargoniums, in which case the leaf is all wrong, or native geraniums, and the flowers are all...
It's a repro of one of the Lewis Chessmen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
There are other colour changing glass types as well as the blue/lilac neodymium based ones. I've one which goes reddish to green. Depends on which...
Soak it in denture tablet solution. That might do it, as might limescale remover. If not, cosmetically, a smear of WD40 or a clear oil.
It's ITALY, badly done, that's very common. Kiko's one is the importer, from memory, Elbee. I can't remember who did this blue - there's an...
Yup, Staffordshire Garter.
Got a decent Indian restaurant near?
I hear you purists. ;) Over here, though, anything that looks faintly churchy like this gets called Gothic Revival.
Gothic Revival in style.
Eastern, not sure where.
Where did you buy it? This was a fairly common style in the 70s and early 80s - Dartington and Whitefriars, for example.
Looks more late 19th or early 20th to me. Have you done a thread test? Not seeing churchy stuff either.
Depends on the force. Some have gone over to diferent everyday headgear, but they're still protective for many.
I'd not use a wire brush or a chemical stripper. If it's old 1980s varnish, then a damn good rub with a damp microfibre cloth will get most of it off.
I thought it looked copper, but it's too blurred.
Earrings are certainly much later than Edwardian. Clip style is at least 1950s.
Yup, rigaree is what the frill is.
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