I've seen that block CHINA mark on early 20th export stuff, including jewellery and cloisonne work.
Very common form my side of the pond. Base included. Usually mid to late 19th.
The best bit of metal reuse I know of are railings around some London buildings. They're stretchers.
It may have been part of a harlequin set. There was a thing for having the same shape but multiple colours in a set.
Crab brooch is Toledo Ware and a nice example, too.
Agates of some sort.
Begonia Rex, to be precise.
Small point. Linie rather than Line.
Base photo please. And side on.
I wasn't far off with my guess. ;)
I still thinks eelses, I does.
You may never find it, although you could always ask the assay office. I've a silversmith friend who goes to the trouble of getting full hallmarks...
Thought of you this morning, @Any Jewelry . Ninety year old plus paratroopers at Arnhem being delightfully fussed over by the (far younger) local...
The egg yolk/butterscotch thing has cultural drivers, hm? Prayer beads, for example, so being massively prized in the Middle East. And in China...
I count myself as part of Europe. ;)
That's it!
Might well be one of ours. Anytime from early 20th to post WW2, though, they went on a LONG time. Not vinyl, it's that other early synthetic I've...
That seat looks exceedingly British. The ebonisation looks Regency, as does the shape and turning. I'll go with a slightly vague late 18th/early...
Nefertiti, I'd say. I doubt it's plaster with that treacle glaze.
Necklace is relatively recent, imo.
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