I suspect 1960s and I also suspect made in italy.
Looks a bt like carved faience to me.
Karl Hartmann, I think.
I need to go visit the museum of computing at Bletchley. It has many devices I worked on. ;) There was a programming language called Ada....
It'd make a cracking little drinks cabinet. Aren't people odd!
I'll endorse that, the repair group is very useful indeed.
I wonder if it's a pseudo mark rather than a fake. A true British vermeil hallmarked ring ought to be 925 silver.
Silversmith and jeweller's marks are often listed together.
I agree: that's a wannabee mark, the anchor and lion shapes are way off. Cartouches are messy as heck, even if it were badly struck.
Ours can be shiny, but not that deep gloss like that. I agree the colours are all wrong, too - gilding is very bright.
70s, more likely, with those colours and that stack of strands.
She's rather shiny for a Staffs one. That glaze almost looks cellulose.
Nope, as I said, post WW2.
Like I said, much later, 20th C. @blooey - we did make hard paste. Did you mean that? ;) New Hall, for example.
The harlequin thing refers to the fact that it's a mix of colours, rather than the origin or composition of the beads. Those look like some kind...
Sorry about that. ;)
The average commercial retail jeweller has not a scrap of clue when it comes to stuff like butterscotch amber or older jools.
Very Klimt, that. Lovely.
Agreed! It's also short which is a good indicator.
Stavros Flatley on acid, maybe.
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