Oh, G Plan is really well made. It was higher end mass market.
Honking great big silver cross. Set with pale garnets and marcasite, with one stone replaced with an alexandrite rhinestone. But, oh, the...
Hmmmmm..... Better photos, anyhow! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yeah, I'm thinking Scandi. It's heavy: close on three ounces.
I don't think it's massively old, but it's beautifully made, simply to show off the wood. A whole fifty cents ish.
I bought a little burr walnut box today. Posting photos just to show how like English burr walnut is to the OPs wood: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Have a really good look for any scribbles or markings. 1970s, they might be G Plan, Lexterten or even MFI.
Probably dark mahogany.
Definitely not Whitefriars. Rims look wrong for decent Scandi: they might be Japanese.
Sorry, this is a rubbish photo, I'll try for a better one tomorrow. Ignore the right hand blurred marks, they're London import silver for 1997....
Venetian beads, I'd say.
I agree with Sandra!
Contact the Jockey Club. Their records are complete and comprehensive.
Absolutely it is - I've a modern version from Lakeland, they work very well.
I agree it's modern costume.
If warm, I'd have said moonglow. But I'm in the dyed onyx camp.
900 with a copyright symbol. I suspect it's vermeil.
Yup, it's a Frank Thrower design I believe.
I remember St Paul's Cathedral being scrubbed up in the 60s. It came up the most wonderful glowing pink. And has stayed that, too.
Got my chemistry wrong, come to that. CaCO3. Tsk, my chemstry teacher would shout at me if she were still alive. I've not been in rhodochrosite...
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